Gun ranges tend to have very strict rules about gun safety. Some of them might be excessive and make training a bit more difficult, but they’re there for a reason.
In a lot of cases, those rules you despise the most exist because some idiot made it seem necessary.
Now, most gun owners are responsible people who know better than to screw around, especially at the range. However, it doesn’t seem to be as universal as we might all hope.
A case in point:
A Poland man is facing charges following a shooting at a local gun range.
Officers were called about 10:45 a.m. Nov. 27 to The Training Range on Mahoning Avenue in Austintown on reports of a customer hit by gunfire.
When police arrived, the victim was resting on the floor and was being treated by medics.
Witnesses said that they heard a gun go off and then the victim yelling at the suspect, later identified as 53-year-old Jan Mazur, about shooting him in the foot and “his poor gun safety,” according to the police report.
Mazur, in his defense, says he was trying to make his weapon safe and pulled back the slide. When he did so, he heard a loud yell. He claims he believes the other man was struck due to a “misfire or…
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