Gun owner admits he had multiple negligent discharges — including one that sent a round between a friend’s feet at the range

A thread in r/guns got ugly fast after one guy laid out a list of negligent discharges that sounded worse every time you got to the next one. In one of the examples he shared, he said he was at the range showing a friend a pistol, thought it was unloaded, pointed it at the ground, and started demonstrating how to rack it and pull the trigger. He had forgotten there was still a loaded magazine in it. The gun fired, and he said the round went between his friend’s feet.

That alone would have been enough to make most people stop and rethink everything, but the part that made the thread blow up was that it was not his only story. In the same comment chain, he described other negligent discharges too, including one at his parents’ house after buying a SIG from a guy and trying to swap slides with another SIG he owned. He said he forgot the other slide still had a round chambered, pulled the trigger, and shot his parents’ wall. Then he described another one at his new house involving a friend’s 5.56 AK, where releasing the bolt led to a round slamming into the ground.

What made the whole thing hit harder was how casual the list almost sounded on the way down. It did not read like one bad day followed by years of learning. It read like a pattern. That is why people in the thread reacted the way they did. Once a guy says he fired between a friend’s feet, shot a wall at his parents’ house, and had another discharge in a new house, the story stops sounding like bad luck and starts sounding like somebody who should not be touching guns until his habits are rebuilt from scratch.

The comments came back exactly how you would expect. People were not treating it like an honest little slip that could happen to anybody. They were treating it like a neon sign for repeated carelessness. And honestly, that is what makes the story so hard to shake. One negligent discharge is bad enough. A whole string of them, with one round going between another person’s feet, is the kind of thing that makes everybody reading it imagine how close those stories came to ending in blood instead of embarrassment.