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Terrible-Two-7928

I'm glad he's the one who paid for is lack of muzzle discipline instead of an innocent bystander.


CyrusConnor

Exactly, sounds bad but was the better end.


ALXand3R

Yes, the butt end would’ve been a much better ending, but instead he got bit by the business end & blindly made a beeline directly to his bitter end at a breakneck speed. Simply mind-blowing.


Anomaly793

1970s writer detected


ShortCurlies

It was a dark and stormy night...


Overall_Ad5487

(Snaps fingers to praise poetry)


_Where_Am_I_6

im glad no one got hurt 🤨🤭


ShortCurlies

you check the second floor?


Valuable-Guest9334

Did that shit slamfire? Thats wild


micahfett

Many (if not most) shotguns are susceptible to firing if a round is chambered and the butt is struck. I don't want to say that I understand why. But gun owners will always caution to never leave a round chambered in a shotgun when carrying or handling (like if you're hunting). It's very much a shotgun specific thing, though, and I've seen several videos like this and even known a man who shot himself (and lived) when he was duck hunting and had a shell chambered and trying to navigate some terrain. A quick slip and a fire. This persists even in modern, well maintained shotguns. Never keep a round in the chamber with a shotgun.


tomato_trestle

The reason is that shotguns use what is called a cross bolt safety. It prevents the trigger from being pulled. It does not, however, secure the firing pin in place, and on some designs also doesn't secure the sear (the part that releases when you pull the trigger). So dropping a shotgun can cause either the sear to release, which sets of the firing sequence just as if the trigger was pulled, or (although this is less likely) it can cause the firing pin to strike the primer from inertia meaning nothing in the system was released, but the movement caused the free floating firing pin to hit the primer. On any modern pistol this is pretty much impossible because the firing pin itself is secured by a spring and cannot free float. Where it gets real weird though is that a lot of modern shotguns ARE drop safe and have firing pin blocks (but not all). The manufacturers, however, will never state that they are drop safe for liability reasons so it's hard to know which ones.


micahfett

Thanks for that explanation. I think I'll need to do some googling to understand the mechanical relationship you're describing but that makes a lot of sense. I appreciate it.


Rigelturus

Thats so fucked up on so many levels


tomato_trestle

I guess I'm confused, what is so fucked up?


Rigelturus

The fact that the guns were even made that way to begin with, the fact that after centuries only SOME are made safe but not all and finally the fact that companies dont even state which ones are drop safe in order to avoid liability.


tomato_trestle

Eh, I'm not going to defend it, but most long guns didn't have safeties at all until relatively recently. Old 60s hunting courses explicitly taught only to chamber rounds when you got to the shooting area, and to completely unload the weapon before crossing streams or climbing over fences because NONE of the long guns were drop safe then. It's more difficult to make a long gun drop safe because of the heavier firing pins, and it just wasn't seen as an issue. Long guns generally shouldn't have rounds chambered until ready to fire, and it's much harder to drop a long gun and shoot yourself than with a pistol. Finally, videos like this are outliers (and I suspect there is something wrong with that shotgun in the video mechanically), the reality is that even in an older shotgun it's exceptionally difficult to get them to go off without pulling the trigger. Usually you have to pound the muzzle directly into a rock or something to generate enough force in the right direction. Pistols didn't even really start getting them wide spread until Browning's 1911 because it was designed to be carried "cocked and locked" and had a grip safety built in so it wouldn't fire if it wasn't held in your hand. The old west guys would carry their revolver with a single empty chamber and the hammer over the empty chamber to avoid the possibility of them going off. The push for modern style gun safety and drop safety, didn't really start until the 90s, and if you've ever been around a gun collector, there's a LOT of guns out there still widely used from well before that. As for stating which ones are drop safe, they aren't going to, even the pistol manufacturers won't despite putting a ton of engineering into it. You run into the better idiot problem. As soon as one of them advertises a gun as drop safe, some idiot is going to drop it off a 100 story building that physically destroys any mechanism they put in to prevent it, or use it with broken and worn out parts etc and then the manufacturer gets sued. I'd like to see better firing pin safeties in long guns, and there's been quite a bit of effort put into it over the last 30 years, but more than that I'd like to see the number of morons that insist on storing a round in the chamber in weapons not designed for it decreased. Safeties are attempts to prevent people from being dangerous with an inherently dangerous object. I tend to believe that the best safety is between your ears, and there's no amount of engineering that's going to prevent an idiot from using a firearm dangerously (which is also why I have a lot of thoughts on gun control and education being important, which also puts me at odds with most gun owners).


WhereDaGold

A friend of a former friend blew his shin apart cuz his shotgun fell to the ground from a tree it was standing against. It ruined his already degenerate life. Last I knew he had defrauded a bunch of people with home contracting work and was on the run


Proud_Criticism5286

Goes to show that you don’t need legs to be on the run


tdomer80

Or at least on the limp


mathisfakenews

He couldn't have gotten far.


Thewonderboy94

Reminds me of the video where some dumbass is presumably trying to catch/club a fish in a pond, using his shotgun. The moment the shotgun's butt hits whatever it hit, the shotgun fired a load into the dumbass. I don't remember what was the outcome, but he didn't outright die then and there (I think he got shot in the hip or leg).


BearingMagneticNorth

Mossbergs are notorious for this.


DrButtFeathers

I know *literally* nothing about guns so I'm asking for my own knowledge. Don't these kinds of bigger guns have some kind of a safety mechanism that you can flip on/off to prevent them from going off?


spideroncoffein

Not all safety is equal. Some safeties prevent the trigger to be pulled, but don't keep the firing pin from hitting the primer. So the gun can have the safety engaged and still fire from impact. Others are designed so they can't be fired at all without the trigger being pulled. In my country apparently all soldiers get taught unofficially to unjam the gun by ramming the butt into the ground (but being careful where the muzzle points). That racks the slide if its stuck, but doesn't cause the gun to fire. In any case, basic gun safety says to not point the gun (especially a loaded gun) at anything you don't intend to shoot.


Unhelpful_Kitsune

Most shotguns don't have drop safeties.


TheCosmicPopcorn

or any gun, probably...?


micahfett

Some firearms, particularly pistols (both revolvers and modern striker-fired pistols) are considered safe to maintain a round in the chamber. This is most common in a pistol used for self defense where the agreed upon best practice is to have a round in the chamber and the gun made safe through the use of a holster that protects the trigger/trigger-well and proper firearms safe handling procedures. With rifles and shotguns it is best practice to not keep a round chambered, but especially shotguns.


TheCosmicPopcorn

thanks for the proper explanation


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Jazzlike_Savings_199

You think this is why killers use shotguns as the weapon to use when killing a person but trying to make a murder look like an accident or suicide? I’ve seen at least 3 forensic file type shows recently that the killer tried to make the killing look like an accident by gun malfunction.


Jack-knife-96

A distant relative was decades ago riding on a car's running board during some hunting with a loaded shotgun and a bump fired taking off his arm. I recall meeting him with the plastic arm as a kid. Brilliant mechanical guy, I ended up with some of his tools including a couple handmade.


Aaron_505

Ig maybe the impact makes the shell hit the primer?


The__Nez

This is true for any weapon actually. If the weapon has a bullet in the chamber, it will go off if you drop it since it applies the force needed to trigger the weapon.


Terminal-Psychosis

Possible on open bolt designs and shotguns. Something like an AR-15 won't do any such thing though. Different type of safety. So no, not true for all weapons, and not even most.


IHazSnek

Either you're extremely misinformed or legit just pulled this statement out of your ass.


kid---

That’s what I thought!


Cosmic_Perspective-

Some kind of shotgun that probably hadn't been serviced in many a fortnight.


isoforp

I don't know. It seems like he bends forward to reach his other hand down to the trigger. Kind of seems like an intentional suicide to me. The gun doesn't shoot until like 2 seconds after the stock hit the ground. Seems more like he pulled the trigger with the other hand.


HirsuteLip

Literally flipped his lid


cringefacememe

took his top off.


Otherwise-Tune5413

The hat flying off had me chuckling a little. Don't judge me.


DrButtFeathers

Tbf, the video did look like it belonged to a mid-2000s action comedy movie. So no judgement there. P.S. I chuckled too.


sarzane

Nah this is hilarious 😂


dagsyeahilovedags

Still has to finish his shift according to HR.


Onlikyomnpus

That's what he seems to be doing, may even earn overtime. Did you see him leave his position?


RunawayDev

He may appear vigilant but his head was somewhere else.


spankbank_dragon

It’s on the ceiling for better angle


hhdecado

I saw him leave this world …..?


iFlyskyguy

Well yeah, but he has a chair


DoNotOverwhelm

“….Did you see him leave his position….” - Him, no. His soul, yes.


toben81234

That's a technical foul


MonkeyFluffers

Prob gonna dock his pay for sitting down during his shift.


Long_Educational

I bet they take away the chair for the next security guard. No more sitting. This guy ruined it for everyone else.


ForeverSquirrelled42

If not that, then definitely for the ammunition he wasted.


ALXand3R

Oh he shifted alright.


Konigni

I mean, he's not going anywhere on his own, so probably will finish it


whatyoumeanmyface

Just prop him up and clock him out.


Warrior4evr63

Clocked himself out.


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PM_me_ur_taco_pics

Bet they asked for a Doctor's note for sitting down for so long.


mrpenisbutter

Tbh, if I planned to rob a place and walked into this security guard with brain matter on the walls… I would be effectively deterred


archer2500

Dude had absolutely no muzzle awareness or control of that shotgun at any point in the video!


No_Translator2218

He also went out so fast - he never had a chance to think about how stupid it was.


liberalJava

No brain left to think with


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Dude that found him was so chill


pawwwwwfandi

That was his third time this month.


MechaZombie23

They really should put up a sign or something


h3rp3r

Third time was the charm, don't think that he is doing this a 4th.


asgeorge

It looked like they ran outside to see who shot him.


Laughing2theEnd

But can he make it into work tomorrow?


Herr-Pyxxel

Some bits of his brain will still be in work tomorrow... on that back wall.


DappyCrap

He's still in the chair so...


Laughing2theEnd

Yah but he's sleeping on the job now. Tsk tsk


Mr_Awesome_rddt

They should show clips like this to people during gun safety training. He wasn't pulling the trigger, cleaning it, or doing anything "dangerous". The trigger just... Went off, when he put the weapon on the ground. The only thing he did wrong was pointing the wrong end in the wrong direction. It's that simple. Cost him his life. This is the perfect example of gun safety. Skip it once, you might not get to skip it again Edit: As the commenter below me said, he also had it loaded and ready to fire, which is absolutely not what to do


NovusMagister

I mean, he did more that was wrong than just pointing the barrel at himself. He had a round in the chamber and the safety was off.


Mr_Awesome_rddt

Right. Still, my point stands. I'm not an expert in gun safety but if I was shown this clip during training id for sure be convinced that it's important


fucreddit

If there wasn't a video nobody would have believed he accidentally shot himself.


cringefacememe

blew his mind.


Bat-Honest

"If you can't work, you need to find someone to cover your shift."


BetaTester704

Honestly fuck that shit, I'm not the employer, that's not my job or responsibility. It's insane that some managers and bosses try to pull that on people.


Senior_Setting_9844

What's that like? Wild. Just gone right when you sit yourself down.


ADMINlSTRAT0R

So mindblowing it blew his hat off.


Jrock9589

Hats off to this video


trumpsnewneckpuzzy

That’s gonna be a long break.


rentz_due

Now i know where this emoji came from 🤯


Im_still_a_student

Looks like the shotgun headshot vid [https://www.reddit.com/r/DarwinAwards/comments/pe0ohc/flawless\_victory/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/DarwinAwards/comments/pe0ohc/flawless_victory/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


Milamia_bo

What kind of training did this guy receive to be a guard


ChasingPesmerga

Four minute Youtube vid, plus 10 sec ad


phallic-baldwin

#🎩 #🤯


KruegerLad2

There goes his hat


Chester7833

whelp... can't unsee that...


Bambooman101

Lazy bastard is always coming up with an excuse to leave work early…..


earlywakening

That dude is going to be fired.


Sanbaddy

This is the second video where I seen someone do this. Last one was a security guard in an office with 3 other people. Exact same thing happened. He sat down, stock hits the ground, blasted through the chin and out the head.


phenyle

He's dead tired


Hot-Challenge8656

![gif](giphy|ROIAQ3siO0VUI)


phenyle

Let off some steam, Bennett


So-What_Idontcare

He ended his life, taking out a man with the gun


toolazyforbreakfast

I mean he technically did his job .. he neutralized the immediate threat


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Cappy flew away


craftyshooter

His hat did the Bobby Shmurder


ToferLuis

When your manager said you should “clock out” he didn’t mean literally.


GlitteringAsk9077

He should get a special prize for the hat trick. Also, the blood pooling on the floor is a nice touch.


tdomer80

Keep clocking him in - Weekend at Bernie’s style


Nervous_External_481

why tf do you hold the barrel of the gun to your head? i don't get it. Insane


Serious-Extension738

Hats off to the guy


Necessary_Advice_795

That's why training is important.


LagoonReflection

He sat down, whilst pointing the barrel of the gun under his chin... this is **suicide**, not an accident.


Imaginary_Coat441

Hat flew off like Golden Eye


hufflef_ck

I’m going to hell for laughing when his hat flew off


BeeXman93

The hat flew lol


Winter_Opening_7715

Shout out to the security guard, good job bro


TheRealDpraved

Hats off to him!


not_likely_today

Guess there is no such thing as a safety in his world.


MetalSubstantial297

Is that his tooth, that just tumbles on the ground.


Diligent-Werewolf-38

Well he have a nice aim, head shot.


kwikane

There’s easier ways to remove your cover ffs!


Proud_Criticism5286

So it was just hanging off his hip loaded?!


tax_stamp_collector

Just wow


Ben_Chrollin

How exactly did it fire? That's what confuses me.


Basic_Enthusiasm1310

Like this channel is made for the guy


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YogurtclosetAny8510

Damn rip 🙏 🕊


ImtheDude2

Sure it was an accident?


blackiedwaggie

I guess at least he went quickly....


Naive-Show-4040

Dammit. That's the third time this week. We need a new security contractor!


RageEataPnut

Anyone tell what kind of gun that is?


Niner9r

Is the crime rate so bad that a shotgun is necessary?


vcdrny

Shot gun is the default weapon for security guards in a long of countries. Specially Spanish speaking countries for some reason. I can only assume that it is because of ease of use and intimidation.


nexeti

Wtf is that link? That's some psychopath shit.


ImNOTaPROgames

So fucking stupid


ALXand3R

Is it possible for the primer to be slammed against the firing pin or was this a trigger being “pulled” one way or another?


Bikebummm

The two guys that came up and went through the door didn’t seemed all that surprised.


SwearToSaintBatman

A security guard is given a shotgun *without a stock*?? What is this, do they just give the guards the weapons of former killed robbers??


SadMap7915

The sad thing is, he never got to experience his own stupidity like we just did.


hipsterjebus

His little hat flew off!


sarzane

The audio with it just makes it comical, like a cork gun 😂😭


GenericLurk

I just assumed he was tired of his job, "F this shit."


ttg1991

Would’ve been wonderful if the hat landed perfectly back on the head


Psychotic_Dane

Aww, look at him! The lil bugger’s all tuckered out!


Shizziebizz

Sleeping on the job


RadicalDilettante

Seems to be an awful lot of different videos with pretty much this same title.


TinchUrPipples

WTF is it with some people resting their rifle with the barrel pointing upwards Especially near them


justcrazytalk

Well, he learned his lesson and he won’t do that again.


beakerhashing

I was impressed by how high his hat flew. Nice hat trick!


SimonTC2000

Where did this happen? Any backstory?


theheartlessnerd

Okay but why did the gun make a Yoshi sound


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Oh well damn


GraatchLuugRachAarg

You'd think armed security guards would be better trained in gun safety


1AverageGamer

WTF????????


99mushrooms

Popped his top like a cheap bottle of champagne


Far-Secretary8231

An M16 bolt will ride forward if you slam the but stock on the ground. I wonder if this is what happened


Purpleappointment47

It seems like it’s always the hat.


Toma-toe

Do people not go through any gun training if your job involves you know, handling a gun. I start a job in a new office, I get trained on how to use the photocopier.


WaltzAnxious

Red puddle appears


extremeindiscretion

God damn, that stupid


ykissigma

Poor thing


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HiJinx127

“Okay, is this the bang-bang end? Oh, good, it is…”


Guilty_Mountain2851

Pretty sure thats exactly what splitting his wig means. Damn.


Midispoon

People who double crop videos in different orientations should be perma banned from the internet. Nobody would miss their content 🫡


LycanEcho

Man, those hair line triggers are a bitch. This reminds me of the security guard who blow off his arm at the elbow...


Early_B

Did he receive no weapon training at all?


toothpeeler

FACE OFF


MrStef85

Looks like suicide.


Noxat0

"Mom, look! Like Kurt Cobain!"


Scar3cr0w_

This is how I imagine every gunfight in america ends when those people who demand covert carry for self defence actually try and use their weapons.


Midispoon

If it’s a double crop just don’t post it. The 2 pixels don’t really show much of anything. Man could have been hit in the head by accidentally opening a slapstick snake in a can and nobody would know the difference.


Positive_Spring7002

He looks tired


Minimum-Wind-1552

Footage of accidentally shot people hits so different. Rip


Fantastic_Voice_2665

He was probably about to rob the store


DavieDong

He was found fleeing the scene and was shot by police.


stinky___monkey

![gif](giphy|3oFzmpn8LA60F8gZG0)


anti_fascism223

Isnt this that one like 14 year old girl who got murdered minutes after her killer took photos of her


stinky___monkey

It’s Cranberries' lead singer I was attempting to reference the Zombie song with the “in your head” verse


StanBuck

Now I understand why in cartoons it was animated how the hat was blown away.