"I came across your story and just wanted to say thanks for having the guts to tell it. About a year ago, I was cleaning my 1911 in the kitchen, wife wasn’t home, she had our oldest with her and our baby was upstairs taking a nap, he was about a 16 months old then. I, for some reason, thought I had it emptied out, but never the less I aimed it at the floor, in a direction where I knew that even if I was wrong the penetration of the floor would only lead to the basement and a concrete floor I pulled the trigger, and it went off. I was sitting at a weird angle to where I was aiming and realized it had actually ricocheted off the carpet, through the let of the high chair, and into a wall. Exactly the direction I did NOT want it to go. Then I realized that our baby didn’t cry upstairs, and went ice cold trying to figure out why the noise hadn’t woken him. I can’t even tell you the terror realizing that the wall the bullet had entered was right below his crib. I went upstairs, more scared than I had ever been in my life…he was sleeping soundly, little chest rising and falling as it should be, I even moved him a bit to hear him just start to wake to be sure, then let him settle back down to continue his nap. I told my wife when she got home, cried again and told her I would only clean and handle at the range from there on out (unless of course there is an intruder). Always thought of the folks who do this sort of thing as idiots who just arent thinking. Pride comes before the all I suppose, just as the bible says.
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