Monday, March 26, 2012

Gun "Goes Off" Again

Once again, a gun just happens to go off and shoot a child who shouldn't have been anywhere near the gun:
  • A 5-year-old girl was in good condition early Sunday after she was shot in her ankle Saturday afternoon while jumping on a bed when a gun hidden under the mattress accidentally went off.

    The girl was jumping on the bed in a home in the 6400 block of South Artesian about 12:20 p.m. when the gun discharged, according to police. She was taken to University of Chicago Comer’s Children’s Hospital, police said. She was in good condition following the treatment.

    The gun was hidden between two mattresses.

Darn kids. And darn those silly guns.

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31 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT:

Mayor wants middle class to stay in city and not leave for better schools..in whose's life-time will that not happen? Folks want out of the city.

3/26/2012 01:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't get it. She's on top of the bed. The gun is horizontal right? It's between the mattresses and she gets shot in the ankle. You'd have to really compress that mattress wouldn't ya?

Sounds like something out of Annie Oakley.

3/26/2012 01:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thirteen years in youth/svu.
That gun did NOT go off by itself.
Nice try, though; points for a story I never heard before.
Who the hell would believe that?

3/26/2012 01:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OMG! Mom and Dad could have caught a round doing the Wild Thang on the same bed!

3/26/2012 01:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mom always said, "don't jump on the bed". Or was it "don't have a gun in the house". Or was it "don't play ball in the house". I better check Brady Bunch reruns.

3/26/2012 01:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is why I keeps mines atops da dresser.

3/26/2012 03:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Guns don't kill people. Mattresses kill people.

3/26/2012 03:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Guns aren't the problem, BEDS ARE! Historically, more children have been hurt by these beds than all the handguns in the world, and yet...nobody does a damn thing.

Where are the marches? Where are the reverends? What about the children?

3/26/2012 05:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That mattress must be brought to justice. Jessie White Tumblers ought to bring on a march. This is another example why you should never cut that 'do not remove' tag on mattresses. It clearly states you should never place your unregistered handgun there when it's expected that the mattress will be used for trampoline purposes.

3/26/2012 07:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hidden in a mattress when you KNOW you have young kids in the house? Some people are as dumb as the day is long.

3/26/2012 07:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Poor kid doesn't have a chance.

3/26/2012 08:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

did uncle have gun registered with city of chicago , foid card , no criminal record
64th & artesian was a nice working class neighborhood in the 1970's
What happened over there ?

3/26/2012 08:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They hid the gun between the mattress because it was a presant for the kids Easter Basket

3/26/2012 08:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What were the chances that in an incident like this the child would actually be struck when the gun goes off accidentally? One in 10? One in 20?

The reason I ask is this: how many of these happen where the kid doesn't get hit, and it doesn't get reported. After all, when the kid gets hit, you've gotta go to the hospital, etc. But if the gun fires, and it just strikes a wall and scares everyone - no sense involving the authorities.

3/26/2012 09:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Naw it ain't called the wild
thang anymore. It's now the
Horizontal Hula.

3/26/2012 10:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd like to see the gunshot residue pattern between the mattresses and the path of the bullet for this to believed. Also whether a semi auto where was the cartridge case was found. Old 4N6 Guy

3/26/2012 10:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Need more facts. As discribed I don't buy it.

3/26/2012 12:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I don't get it. She's on top of the bed. The gun is horizontal right? It's between the mattresses and she gets shot in the ankle. You'd have to really compress that mattress wouldn't ya?

Sounds like something out of Annie Oakley."


Look for evidence on the grassy knoll!

3/26/2012 12:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

More like the 18 y.o. play cousin (still in grade school) with the g.d. ink was playing with his illegal gun, and not knowing the difference between the trigger and the barrel, it went off.

3/26/2012 12:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"She was taken to University of Chicago Comer’s Children’s Hospital..."

All of a sudden it seems like this is all you hear.

Are they advertising?

3/26/2012 02:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Vanecko & Daley Mattress Cams, Inc. LLC

3/26/2012 02:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did the owner have his CFP of FOid??

3/26/2012 03:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't keep a round in the chamber stupid... Oh wait he kept the gun under a matress. STUPID! How. Can you access that if needed? Don't get it. "Honey, wake up, stand up and get off. The bed, I heard a bump in the night!"

3/26/2012 05:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard the mattress tag was removed. Sounds like a job for the feebs for violation of 15 USC 2(v).

3/26/2012 06:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The gun was a stolen Smith and Wesson target pistol with a very light and short trigger pull with the safety disengaged. It was stuffed between the bed rail and the mattress of a twin bed (along the side of the mattress)which was then pushed next to another twin bed to make one big bed! The girl was jumping near the edges of the squishy mattresses when the gun went off. The only other person in the room at the time was a 1 month old who was in a baby car seat carrier seated on one of the beds it could have been worse. Forensic evidence backed up the story.

3/26/2012 07:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off Topic: I heard on the radio this afternoon Chicago will host the first North American gathering of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in April. The irony is endless.

3/26/2012 07:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Don't keep a round in the chamber stupid... Oh wait he kept the gun under a matress. STUPID! How. Can you access that if needed? Don't get it. "Honey, wake up, stand up and get off. The bed, I heard a bump in the night!"

3/26/2012 05:56:00 PM

You're missing the point. Like the other guy said, directional force has to be applied to the trigger to fire it - and a significant amount at that. What's the weight on most guns with no safeties in DA? Usually about 12lbs. When in SA it's usually about 4. I'm not sure about revolvers but who the hell keeps one of those cocked and under their bed? I've never seen a gun fire itself even when dropped. I don't see how that's even possible.

I don't buy this for a minute.

I'd also like to know if owner has a FOID card like I, and every other lawful gun owner in IL does.


-Edison Park Resident

3/26/2012 08:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

'Oh hell no that aint my mattress'

3/26/2012 09:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, thats how it happened, right honey??? Yeah, thats exactly how it happened.

3/27/2012 09:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

BAN MATTRESSES.

Eddie (foie gras) Burke


or jumping??? BOTH ! eb

3/27/2012 10:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They had bed rails AND a mattress i don't buy it

3/27/2012 02:12:00 PM  

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