Guns aren't stupid, People with Guns Are.

A Tigard man was hospitalized this afternoon after accidentally shooting himself in the leg with a rifle, the Tigard Police Department reported.

About 1 p.m., police responded to the 11800 block of Southwest Summer Crest Drive. Officers learned that the 61-year-old man, who was sitting in a chair, was holding a rifle, when the weapon accidentally fired, said Jim Wolf, Tigard police spokesman.

Hendersonville Police are investigating a shooting that has left one seriously injured.
A woman is in serious condition at Vanderbilt Medical Center after being shot on La Sabre Drive. The call came out to police as an accidental shooting.

A North Tonawanda man was arrested Friday after he fired a handgun through his kitchen window into a neighbor’s house, police said.

Michael Stafford, 64 of Fairmont Street, told authorities he did not know his handgun was loaded when he was playing with the weapon,

16-year-old Robeson County boy was killed Thursday in accidental shooting


LUMBERTON - A 16-year-old Shannon boy was killed Thursday when a shotgun he was playing with accidentally discharged, according to the Robeson County Sheriff's Office.

On Friday, February 15 at 12:56 p.m., Antioch Police officers were dispatched to a possible fight in the parking lot of the Burger King located at 4620 Lone Tree Way. Prior to officers’ arrival, dispatch received information from a caller that one of the involved parties shot himself in the leg.

Preliminary information indicates during the confrontation, a 15 year-old Antioch resident attempted to retrieve a gun he had concealed in his waistband and accidentally shot himself.

Tolna man shoots himself in hand

By: Stephen J. Lee, Grand Forks Herald

A Tolna, N.D., man accidentally shot himself in the hand with a semi-automatic pistol Wednesday and was driven to Grand Forks for surgery.

Christopher Reeves, 26, told police he was cleaning the gun and forgot to unload it first, said Ramsey County Sheriff’s Deputy Don Meyer.

A man accidentally shot himself in the foot late Thursday evening.

The victim said he was removing his .40 caliber Taurus pistol after retuning from his ranch when he accidentally pulled the trigger. The gun was pointing down, so the bullet went through his leather boot, into the upper part of his right foot and out the bottom.

The bullet was found in the sole of the boot. The officer asked the man if he intentionally shot himself, and he said he didn't.

CLIFTON, Colo. -

The Mesa County Sheriff's Office is releasing more information regarding Wednesday night's shooting in Clifton that sent a man and a woman to the hospital.


According to sheriff's deputies, a suicidal man shot himself in the chest and the bullet went through his back, striking a woman who was inside the home.

Police had responded to the home on Delicious Drive around 6:00 p.m.

Authorities said Michael Sexton was wounded in the lung while attempting to kill himself. A police report states Crystal Mannon was struck by the errant round.

No charges have been filed and the relationship between Sexton and Mannon is unclear.

Their conditions are unknown at this time as well.

A Beaver County judge dismissed the most serious charge against a man who shot a costumed child, whom police said he mistook for a skunk.

) A south suburban woman who claimed she accidentally shot her husband in the face as they were “playing” with a new gun in their kitchen faces felony charges for originally lying about the incident, according to police.

KBI: Girl Dies In Apparent Accidental Shooting

Post staff spoke to the Ness County Sheriff’s office today and confirmed that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation has assigned a special agent to investigate the apparent accidental shooting death of a girl in the small Ness County community of Bazine.

The incident happened on Friday night

Detectives said two armed men approached a man standing on the front porch. A short argument ensued before one armed man told the other to shoot the man they confronted. The man took off running and the shooter fired several shots at him, but missed and struck his accomplice.

Another person inside the house came to the front door, and that’s when he was shot in the stomach. Detectives said the shooter dragged his accomplice to the car, dropped him off at the front door of a hospital and drove away.

A man accidentally fired a handgun, injuring himself and another man, in New Braunfels, officials said.

NORTHPORT, Alabama -- A man and his young daughter were injured after the man's gun accidentally fired while he was cleaning it, according to investigators.

Northport police called Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit investigators to the scene, where a 45-year-old man was struck by a bullet in his left leg while he was cleaning a 9-millimeter pistol, said Homicide Unit commander Capt. Loyd Baker.

The man's six-year-old daughter was grazed by the projectile after it went through his leg, Baker said.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -

A man was rushed to St. Mary's Hospital for an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
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It started as a routine traffic stop for speeding just before 8 pm Saturday night near 29 Road and Pinyon Ave.

A deputy pulled over a vehicle with two men inside, when the deputy saw that the passenger was bleeding from his head.

The man told the deputy he had accidentally shot himself at his home, and that his friend was driving him to St. Mary's hospital.

Teenager shoots self in arm
February 18, 2013


MILL HALL-A 17-year-old boy will be charged with false reports to police after he told police an intruder entered his home on Homestead Drive and, after trying to grab his 1-year-old sister, shot him in the arm, Saturday at 8:15 p.m., state police at Lamar said.

After police interviewed the juvenile, he told police no one had entered the home. He also told police he had the handgun and it accidentally went off, shooting him in the arm, police said.

Police: Rock Hill man shoots himself while cleaning gun

The Herald
Posted: Monday, Feb. 18, 2013

ROCK HILL A Rock Hill man landed in the emergency room at Piedmont Medical Center Friday after accidentally shooting himself while cleaning his gun.

The 47-year-old man told police his 9mm discharged while he was cleaning the weapon. The bullet went through his left heel and into the back door of his apartment, according to a Rock Hill police report.

Man accidently shoots self outside Walmart



MORAINE, Ohio (WDTN) - A man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg.

It happened around 3:00 pm Tuesday in the Walmart parking lot on Dorothy Lane in Moraine.

A man was recovering from a bullet wound to his right side after shooting himself while handling a handgun, Davie Police said.

It happened around 3:45 p.m. on Monday in a home on the 3000 block of Northwest 78th Terrace, in Davie, Capt. Dale Engle said.

He was thought to be cleaning his gun when it went off, Engle said.