He took off his shoe and threw it at the bug to kill it, but a revolver he had hidden in the shoe fell to the ground. Upon making contact with the floor, the gun discharged and the bullet hit the victim in the foot.
That's even more bizarre; how does one hide a gun in their shoe??
Not long ago Reddit introduced a new policy thatpunishes people for upvoting bad posts, which includes posts about Luigi Mangione. After that, people have been moving into Lemmy as an alternative.
This reference may or may not be before your time .. forgive me, I've seen this before.
Think of it as "Eternal September" and you'll be able to take it in your stride .. brace yourself, this is going to happen more and more, at least for a while.
To be fair, I'm only noticing because I've switched to Voyager and it shows which accounts are newer, but there's a ton! My instinct is to think troll farms. But, I'll be happy to live in an eternal September.
Yeah, Voyager here too. The indicator helps evaluate if I care enough to respond. As for Eternal September, it was a doozy and the road was pretty rough.
I can't tell if you're joking or not because that's actually a good explanation... Even if you're on a wheelchair, I can't imagine having a lump of metal in/on/under your shoe being comfortable at all if you have a real foot.
If his claim is true he probably had an ankle or boot holster. Taking off his boot dislodged his gun and it fell to the ground discharging. I could not imagine the blisters from trying to walk around with a loose gun in my boot, a crease in my sock is above my threshold.
I imagine it was more of a cowboy boot. There is some room around the ankle calf area where you could conceal a smaller gun.
Also, an ankle holster makes sense to me. Awkwardly rushing to take off your shoe while hoping around on one foot could dislodge the weapon from the holster.
A bigger question is, why would you store a revolver with the hammer cocked? I don't think a double action revolver would just "go off" with the hammer uncocked. The drop would not be strong/violently enough cock the hammer. The hammer would have to be intentionally left cocked, so a drop could accidentally release it to fire the round.
There are older revolvers that can go off from a drop that's just right. Modern revolvers have a safety gate that covers the pin the from the hammer except during trigger pull. IIRC, Taurus, S&W and Ruger have all had this problem in the past.
Edit. Called a transfer bar, and is pretty much standard on single and double actions.
You know, it could be a little derringer. I've never fooled with one and don't know a lot about them. They're cute little toys, but they have such low utility that the danger inherent in loaded guns outweighs carrying one.
That's even more bizarre; how does one hide a gun in their shoe??
Ankle holster probably.
Also, almost no pistol designed in the last 60 years will discharge when simply dropped on the ground (Sig P320 may be the exception here). I'm pretty sure this guy shot himself, and blamed it on an AD. What a moron.