Texas National Guard soldier killed in accidental shooting

[TexasTowelie]

A Texas National Guard soldier stationed in the area as part of Operation Lone Star died Monday following an accidental shooting on Fort Clark Springs, the Army Times has reported.

The soldier, whose identity is being withheld pending the notification of next-of-kin, was shot and killed with his personal handgun after he handed that gun to a fellow soldier, and the gun went off, according to the Army Times story.

Army Times writer Davis Winkie reported, “According to documents obtained by the Army Times, the soldier was sitting in the front seat of a car parked at Fort Clark Springs near Brackettville, Texas, where the unit was doing swim training, when he handed his handgun to a soldier sitting behind him.

“The gun fired as the second soldier was taking it from his hands, sending a round through the seat and into the first soldier’s back, the documents stated,” the report reads.

Read more: https://830times.com/news-texas-national-guard-soldier-killed-in-accidental-shooting/

[multigraincracker]

1. Even that Militia was not

"well regulated" enough.

[AndyS]

2. I thought guns don't kill people, people kill people yet

the gun went off and killed it's owner. Hmmm, maybe the owner was abusing the gun so it took vengeance?

[secondwind]

3. What a tragedy. You'd think the car seat would have

slowed the bullet down some. Terrible 😢

[bottomofthehill]

4. Unfortunately not even close.

To be considered for civilian personal defense and Law Enforcement duty, a handgun bullet is shot 5 times through each of the following barriers: a bare ballistic gelatin block, a ballistic gelatin block covered in heavy winter clothing, two pieces of 20-gauge sheet steel (simulating the thinnest part of a car door) and then ballistic gelatin, wallboard and gelatin, plywood and gelatin and laminated car windshield backed by ballistic gelatin. The penetration depths in gelatin of each of the 30 bullets are then measured, the bullets are pulled from the gelatin and are then measured for expansion and retained weight. All of this data is entered into a spreadsheet which applies the appropriate weighting factors to the data. Penetration depths between 14.0-16.0 inches in the gelatin blocks are rewarded while under-penetration and penetration over 18.0” are penalized. Given that the FBI Protocol came to be due to an otherwise fatal hit that failed to stop one of the Miami shooters, due to under-penetration, bullets that penetrate less than 12.0” are penalized heavily. All shots are taken from handguns at a distance of 10 feet.