Rather than keeping dangerous people from easy access to guns, we put more nuts on the street!!

[Sancho]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/23/1405092/-Civilian-guarding-military-recruitment-center-accidentally-fired-his-gun-while-showing-it-off?detail=facebook

Civilian guarding military recruitment center accidentally fired his gun while showing it off

It was only a matter of time:
Christopher A. Reed, 28, of Lancaster, was charged with discharging a firearm in the city limits, and was issued a summons to appear in Fairfield County Municipal Court on Tuesday, according to the police incident report.
Reed told the officer who responded that he was standing, holding his AR-15 rifle in front of the military recruiting station to guard the personnel inside when someone approached him and asked if he could take a look at the weapon. Reed agreed to show him, and while he was trying to clear the ammunition from the weapon, he accidentally fired into the asphalt pavement.

The only damage was a hole in the pavement. The rifle was taken from Reed pending his appearance in court, the incident report says.

[guillaumeb]

1. Someone needs more training in weapons handling. eom

[flamin lib]

3. Naaa, someone doesn't need to own a weapon. nt

[Hoyt]

2. Responsible, safe gun owner. As much as they deny it, that's your typical gun loving yahoo.

[jimmy the one]

4. not very well regulated, these Unorg'd Mil

this should be posted too, imo, regarding these unorganized militiamen:

daily kos: It's no wonder military brass are telling recruiters to treat these guys as security threats:

“I’m sure the citizens mean well, but we cannot assume this in every case and we do not want to advocate this behavior,” according to the Army Command Operations Center-Security Division letter, which was authenticated by the service.
Recruiters were ordered not to interact or acknowledge the armed civilians, who have been greeted by a mix of concern, indifference and gratitude by the public.

“If questioned by these alleged concerned citizens, be polite, professional and terminate the conversation immediately and report the incident to local law enforcement …,” the command advised.