Dog Shoots Man on This Day in History

This day in history: 30-year-old Joseph Smith from Wichita, Kansas, was killed in his pickup truck during a hunting trip, when his dog discharged a rifle from the back seat on this day in 2023. Smith was sitting in the front passenger seat of his vehicle when his dog "stepped on the rifle", which pulled the trigger and shot him.

In 2014, a dog shot a hunter after the hunter left his shotgun on the ground near Eagle Grove. And the Washington Post has reported at least six incidents of dogs turning guns on their owner.

In 2015, a Labrador retriever named Trigger shot a woman in the foot in Indiana, as her loaded shotgun had been left on the ground with the safety off.

In 2018, a pit bull-Labrador named Balew in Iowa shot his owner when the pair were playing. Richard Remme told officials he was sitting on the couch when he pushed the dog off his lap. Balew jumped up, disabled the safety on the gun in his holster and pressed the trigger.

The only thing that can stop a bad dog with a gun is a good dog with a gun.

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The AK-47 on This Day in History

 

This day in history: The AK-47 went into production in the Soviet Union on this day in 1947. 

The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova ('Kalashnikov's automatic [rifle]'; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is a gas-operated assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge. Developed in the Soviet Union by Russian small-arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, it is the originating firearm of the Kalashnikov (or "AK") family of rifles. After more than seven decades since its creation, the AK-47 model and its variants remain one of the most popular and widely used firearms in the world.

Design work on the AK-47 began in 1945. It was presented for official military trials in 1947, and, in 1948, the fixed-stock version was introduced into active service for selected units of the Soviet Army. In early 1949, the AK was officially accepted by the Soviet Armed Forces and used by the majority of the member states of the Warsaw Pact.

The model and its variants owe their global popularity to their reliability under harsh conditions, low production cost (compared to contemporary weapons), availability in virtually every geographic region, and ease of use. The AK has been manufactured in many countries, and has seen service with armed forces as well as irregular forces and insurgencies throughout the world. As of 2004, "of the estimated 500 million firearms worldwide, approximately 100 million belong to the Kalashnikov family, three-quarters of which are AK-47s". The model is the basis for the development of many other types of individual, crew-served and specialized firearms.

The standard magazine capacity is 30 rounds. There are also 10, 20, and 40-round box magazines, as well as 75-round drum magazines. The AK-47's standard 30-round magazines have a pronounced curve that allows them to smoothly feed ammunition into the chamber. 

The AK-47 is included on the flag of Mozambique and its emblem, an acknowledgment that the country gained its independence in large part through the effective use of their AK-47s.[166] It is also found in the coats of arms of East Timor, Zimbabwe and the revolution era Burkina Faso, as well as in the flags of Hezbollah, Syrian Resistance, FARC-EP, the New People's Army, TKP/TIKKO and the International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces.

In Mexico, the AK-47 is known as "Cuerno de Chivo" (literally "Goat's Horn") because of its curved magazine design. It is one of the weapons of choice of Mexican drug cartels. It is sometimes mentioned in Mexican folk music lyrics.

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The Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan on This Day in History

 

This Day in History: On this day in 1981, President of the United States Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C., as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton. Hinckley believed the attack would impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had developed an erotomanic obsession.

White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and DC police officer Thomas Delahanty were also wounded. All three survived, but Brady had brain damage and was permanently disabled. His death in 2014 was considered a homicide because it was ultimately caused by his injury.

What is never talked about is the caliber of the bullet, a small .22lr. "Everyone scoffs at the .22 cartridge. They say it’s useless for self defense. They say it’s too small. They say it isn’t powerful enough. But I’ve yet to see one of these people volunteer to be shot by one.

Look at the attempted assassination of Reagan. John Hinckley Jr. used a .22 revolver. Secretary Brady was hit in the head, critically wounded and crippled for life. A New York City police officer was hit in the neck and died instantly. A secret service agent went down and stayed down with a bullet in his liver. And finally, Reagan was rushed to the hospital and underwent emergency surgery for a bullet in his lung. And the bullet in question did this AFTER bouncing off the side of Reagan’s armored limousine." Source

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A Russian Roulette Death on This Day in History

 

American actor Jon-Erik Hexum, 26, died after playing a simulated Russian roulette with a .44 Magnum pistol loaded with blanks on this day in 1984. The blanks contained paper wadding and when he pulled the trigger against his temple, the wadding was propelled with a force that broke his skull, causing massive brain bleeding.

Russian Roulette is the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one's own head.

The first trace of Russian roulette can be found in the short story "The Fatalist", which was written in 1840 and was part of the collection A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, a Russian poet and writer. In the story, which is set in a Cossack village, the protagonist, Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, claims that there is no predestination and proposes a bet in order to prove it, laying about twenty gold pieces onto a table. A lieutenant of the dragoons of the Tsar, Vuli?, a man of Serbian origins with a passion for gambling, accepts the challenge and randomly takes one of a number of pistols of various calibres from its nail, cocks it and pours gunpowder onto the pan. Nobody knows if the pistol is loaded or not. "Gentlemen! Who will pay 20 gold pieces for me?", Vulic asks, putting the muzzle of the pistol to his forehead. He then asks Grigory to throw a card in the air, and when this card touches the ground, he pulls the trigger. The weapon fails to fire, but when Vulic cocks the pistol again and aims it at a service cap hanging over the window, a shot rings out and smoke fills the room.

The term Russian roulette was possibly first used in a 1937 short story of the same name by Georges Surdez: "'Did you ever hear of Russian Roulette?' When I said I had not, he told me all about it. When he was with the Russian army in Rumania, around 1917, and things were cracking up, so that their officers felt that they were not only losing prestige, money, family, and country, but were being also dishonored before their colleagues of the Allied armies, some officer would suddenly pull out his revolver, anywhere, at the table, in a café, at a gathering of friends, remove a cartridge from the cylinder, spin the cylinder, snap it back in place, put it to his head and pull the trigger. There were five chances to one that the hammer would set off a live cartridge and blow his brains all over the place."

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Gaston Glock (and his gun) on This Day in History

 

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This day in history: Austrian engineer Gaston Glock was born on this day in 1929. Glock founded the company Glock, best known for developing the Glock pistol in 1981. "When it comes to handguns, the pinnacle brand for reliability and ease of use is Glock. Glock offers 50 different models to choose from, but their most popular model is the Glock 19. The Glock 19 is a compact pistol chambered in 9mm, and with standard magazines, it holds 16 rounds with one in the chamber." Source

The story of the Glock also makes for interesting reading. The Amazon blurb for Glock: The Rise of America's Gun by Paul M. Barrett reads: "Based on 15 years of research, Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as America’s gun. Today the Glock pistol has been embraced by two-thirds of all U.S. police departments, glamorized in countless Hollywood movies, and featured as a ubiquitous presence on prime-time TV. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists, and coveted by cops and crooks alike.

Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, an obscure Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer, and swiftly adopted by the Austrian army, the Glock pistol, with its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine, arrived in America at a fortuitous time. Law enforcement agencies had concluded that their agents and officers, armed with standard six-round revolvers, were getting "outgunned" by drug dealers with semi-automatic pistols. They needed a new gun.

When Karl Water, a firearm salesman based in the U.S. first saw a Glock in 1984, his reaction was, 'Jeez, that’s ugly.' But the advantages of the pistol soon became apparent. The standard semi-automatic Glock could fire as many as 17 bullets from its magazine without reloading. (One equipped with an extended 33 cartridge magazine was used in Tucson to shoot Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others). It was built with only 36 parts that were interchangeable with those of other models. You could drop it underwater, toss it from a helicopter, or leave it out in the snow, and it would still fire. It was reliable, accurate, lightweight, and cheaper to produce than Smith and Wesson’s revolver. Made in part of hardened plastic, it was even rumored (incorrectly) to be invisible to airport security screening.

Filled with corporate intrigue, political maneuvering, Hollywood glitz, bloody shoot-outs - and an attempt on Gaston Glock’s life by a former lieutenant - Glock is at once the inside account of how Glock the company went about marketing its pistol to police agencies and later the public, as well as a compelling chronicle of the evolution of gun culture in America."

Even in 2022, Glock is still one of the bestselling brands in handguns. See: 10 Highest Selling Pistols of 2022 (So Far)

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