gun shop owner charged for alleged prank gone wrong

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gun shop owner charged for alleged prank gone wrong

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Pointing firearms is never funny.. wouldn't have been funny with the BB gun either.. and why is a firearm in the sales case loaded ? and this guy owns a gun store...
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South Carolina gun shop owner charged for fatally shooting friend in face in alleged prank gone wrong

A South Carolina gun shop owner is facing charges for shooting and killing his friend after allegedly mistaking a Glock firearm for a BB gun in a prank gone wrong last month, authorities said.
Whitley allegedly admitted to deputies that he brought his replica Glock BB gun into the shop and placed it on a shelf among other firearms as a prank, an affidavit says. Investigators believe Whitely intended to pick up the BB gun but grabbed a different firearm by mistake.
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I'm not buying it.
How many gun stores leave loaded guns in the display?
Who handles guns all day and can't tell a BB gun from the real deal?
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evan price wrote:I'm not buying it.
How many gun stores leave loaded guns in the display?
Who handles guns all day and can't tell a BB gun from the real deal?
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Not so sure about that part. I bought a Glock 19 BB gun a while back, and just now compared them side by side with my carry Glock. Pretty hard to tell which is the real one from just picking it up (other than the added rubber grip and some wear on the real one). Every detail of the outside is perfectly reproduced, with only an added "Officially Licensed Product of GLOCK" embossed on one side, black letters on black background. It weighs the same as a loaded one - I could not feel a difference when picking it up.
You just can't rack the slide, and if you look down the barrel in a mirror (safety first!), you see the smaller diameter barrel, which is recessed inside a normal barrel, so it still looks like a 9mm exit hole.

Still no excuse for what happened.
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