40 s&W) was oriented almost straight down, near the mouth of his inside the waistband holster. While reholstering, he reached out with his left hand and grabbed the target in an effort to show how the off hand can be used defensively. The then thought he should demonstrate the value of keeping his non-gun hand up to fend off any threat that might still be coming if the shots didn’t take effect. He explained that he repeated the demonstration and fired a few more shots from retention. Standing in close proximity to a cardboard target, he drew his gun, fired a couple rounds from retention and re-holstered. He was doing a demonstration of close quarters retention shooting for his CCW class. He wore the same gun (unloaded) and holster and walked me through the events of the day leading up to the shooting. I met him in order to try to reconstruct what happened. I just don’t understand how it happened.” But I’ve been doing this a long time and I know not to have my finger on the trigger when I’m not actually shooting. I know that I had to have pulled the trigger for the gun to go off. I’m not blaming this on the gun or the holster. He told me: “ Greg, I know how guns work. I have seen him draw and shoot and know that he doesn’t casually keep his finger on the trigger while holstering. He is an experienced instructor and competitive shooter, receiving professional training from the best in the business. “I bet he was using a Blackhawk Serpa holster.” “He shouldn’t have had his finger on the trigger when he was putting the gun in the holster.” ![]() This instructor shot himself while re-holstering after doing a demonstration during a basic concealed handgun class. I was recently contacted by an experienced handgun instructor to help him reconstruct the events of an accidental shooting.
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