Nimrod Almost Blows His Own Brains Out With .500 S & W Magnum

By Bob Owens | 6:50 PM | March 30, 2017

We’ve heard of numerous cases of people attempting to fire big-bore handguns and then negligently firing a second round as they squeezed the trigger a second time as they tried to control the recoiling gun by tightening their grip. We’re aware of at least two deaths resulting from this, and our grandstanding wannabe Rambo attempting to fire 700-grain bullets single handed nearly joined their number.

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Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.