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Americans Who Carry Concealed Weapons Keep Accidentally Shooting Themselves in Public Bathrooms
This year's list of incidents includes an Italian restaurant, a prosecutor's office, a Target, a Burger King ...
Last year, CityLab took a brief look at the disturbingly high number of accidental firearm discharges that take place in public bathrooms across the United States. There were reports of accidental gunfire in bathrooms at a Walmart, a hotel, a grocery store, an Internet cafe, and a Carl's Jr. (The roundup somehow missed this one at an Irish pub in Florida.) In most cases, the self-inflicted victims were pulling up or lowering their pants when their concealed weapon fell out, hit the floor, and fired.
One of these unfortunate incidents prompted a MN Guntalk forum user named "peckerhead" to offer this advice, for men: