Officer shot wife in buttocks showing gun to pals – Houston Chronicle.  Most common BS line we hear at GOTR…”It just went off.”  We call BS because between the three of us, we’ve fired well over 1.5 million rounds and been there on the line to supervise that many or more.  Guns, especially handguns made since 1980, don’t typically just go off.  Typical bolt-action rifles and sporting shotguns may be a different story as they are not designed to be carried into combat but, service grade handguns from the likes of SigSauer, Smith&Wesson, Colt, HK, Glock, etc, don’t just mysteriously go BANG! without a booger-hook (aka finger) or some other object pressing on the bang switch (aka trigger) with sufficient force to activate the entire fire control system, up to and including, disabling a firing-pin block.  That doesn’t happen by accident unless you’re an incompetent idiot or, in the words of Lee Paige, the only one in the room professional enough to handle a firearm.

-Gary

Smith & Wesson has started shipping the 586 again!!!

I cut my teeth on the 586 and its predecessor, the Model 19, as a young shooter.  The 586 was introduced in 1980 to answer a need for a 357 Magnum that could handle a steady diet of 357 Magnum ammo but, without resorting to something so big as the venerable Model 27.  The 586 and stainless 686 delivered in spades and remain workhorses among many revolver shooters to this day.   Might have to add a pair of these to my safe in the near future.

-Gary