Florida Man Shot by His Dog

Thursday, February 28, 2013

A Florida man was shot and wounded over the weekend by his dog, police said. Gregory Dale Lanier, 35, of Frostproof told police Saturday that he and his dog were in their truck in Sebring "when his dog kicked his unloaded .380 pistol causing it to fire and the bullet struck his leg. Lanier said he heard boom, saw smoke and felt a burning in his leg," Sebring Police Cmdr. Steve Carr told the Highlands Today newspaper.

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The dog "walked away without charges," writes M. Alex Johnson of NBC News.

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..... guns don't kill people ..... dogs with guns kill people .....
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#1 | Posted by skizziks at 2013-02-27 10:08 AM | Reply | Flag:

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.... man's best friend ? .... or a scheming back shooter ? ... we report, you decide .....
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#2 | Posted by skizziks at 2013-02-27 10:10 AM | Reply | Flag:

Stand your ground, Basset hound.

#3 | Posted by Harry_Powell at 2013-02-27 10:26 AM | Reply | Flag:

Covering for the cat no doubt.

#4 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2013-02-27 10:53 AM | Reply | Flag:

Why can so many guns just go off from being knocked over? Seems like a pretty big design flaw.

#5 | Posted by Sully at 2013-02-27 10:56 AM | Reply | Flag:

"Why can so many guns just go off from being knocked over? Seems like a pretty big design flaw."
#5 | Posted by Sully at 2013-02-27 10:56 AM | Reply

I don't know if it qualifies as a design flaw, but it is something you have to be careful about when dealing with a loaded firearm. Television has fostered the concept ("all right, throw your gun down and come out wth your hands up") that you should be tossing loaded guns around like beanbags.

#6 | Posted by hawk at 2013-02-27 11:07 AM | Reply | Flag:

Who says it has to be man bites dog to be a newsworthy story?

#7 | Posted by zeropointnrg at 2013-02-27 11:20 AM | Reply | Flag:

Will the dog use the 'Stand your ground' defense?

#8 | Posted by DRJIMMIES at 2013-02-27 11:21 AM | Reply | Flag:

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...From now on, when Fido wants a walk, Fido gets a walk....
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#9 | Posted by skizziks at 2013-02-27 11:25 AM | Reply | Flag:

Police search suspect.
www.imsogangsta.org

#10 | Posted by patron at 2013-02-27 11:27 AM | Reply | Flag:

The gun went off, shooting Lanier in the leg,...

He should thank his lucky stars....

#11 | Posted by CalifChris at 2013-02-27 01:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

Television has fostered the concept ("all right, throw your gun down and come out wth your hands up") that you should be tossing loaded guns around like beanbags.

#6 | POSTED BY HAWK

Guns should not go off when dropped or bumped ,ever...most of the time this is due to unscrupulous gunsmithing involving filing and stoning of the sear to make the trigger pull weight far less than the factory specs...it is a no no for a well trained and honest gunsmith to take requests for this kind of work.I have a pad on my workbench just for that purpose,to make sure repeated blows won't make the hammer fall.

#12 | Posted by ghoti at 2013-02-27 04:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

"According to the police report, Lanier said he was driving along State Road 17 North when the dog kicked "the unloaded .380 pistol." It went on to say that Lanier was "surprised" to learn not only that the gun was loaded, but also that it was actually a 9mm weapon, not a .380."

Now that is what I call an irresponsible gun owner. Weapon was loaded while being transported, and had the safety off.

Darwin award, honourable mention. If only the bullet had flown a few inches higher....

BLAM! "Oh, for the love of God!"

#13 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2013-02-27 04:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

.most of the time this is due to unscrupulous gunsmithing involving filing and stoning of the sear to make the trigger pull weight far less than the factory specs

Or a dumbass who shoots themselves because...well...they're a dumbass and makes up the story to cover for it.

I'm guessing that's what happened in this case.

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2013-02-27 09:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

#13 | Posted by HeliumRat

Agreed, another idiot.

#15 | Posted by zack991 at 2013-02-27 09:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

when his dog kicked his unloaded .380 pistol????? UNLOADED?

#16 | Posted by motochriso at 2013-02-28 05:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

Sure are a lot of irresponsible gun owners out there.

#17 | Posted by cbob at 2013-02-28 06:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

They released the dog's mug shot

3.bp.blogspot.com

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2013-02-28 06:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

Sure are a lot of irresponsible gun owners out there.
Like the guy in Houston who let his 4 y/o play with his gun.

#19 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-28 06:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

When I take my SKS out for target shooting at the orchard, it goes in the trunk, unloaded.

Which brings me to the story of 'Ol One Nut. This was a guy I knew who was a security guard. He kept an automatic in his pants while driving. Well, one day he took some rail-road tracks at high speed, and when he landed on the other side, the gun went off.

Hence his nickname.

#20 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2013-02-28 06:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

Television has fostered the concept ("all right, throw your gun down and come out wth your hands up") that you should be tossing loaded guns around like beanbags.

#6 | POSTED BY HAWK AT 2013-02-27 11:07 AM | REPLY | FLAG

Clearly television has fostered sometihng strange into you. A dropped gun sohuldn;t go off except in extremely rare circumstances. Tampering and amatuer "gunsmiths" like to defeat safety features for imagined advantages.

And frankly?

Even then it would be SUPER rare. I don;t believe it any time I hear it. Guns don;t go off when dropped. They don't. Some drunk was fooling around and paid a price, then made up some lie. It's like all the ostensible "condom failure" I keep hearing about, or the emergency room stories about things ending up in a dude's butt.

#21 | Posted by soheifox at 2013-02-28 08:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

Surely that doggie must've been owned by former Vice Pres. Dick Cheney,
shooting his own hunting companion......
Brings back memories from that blowhard ........don't ever go
a'huntin' with Cheney............he belomgs to the "Gang that couldn't
shoot straight.......

#22 | Posted by saginawmi at 2013-02-28 10:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

"The dog ate my paper..."

"The dog fired my gun..."

#23 | Posted by Leucothea at 2013-03-01 05:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

his dog kicked his unloaded .380 pistol causing it to fire and the bullet struck his leg

I think we have evidence, however sketchy, that the gun was loaded rather than unloaded.

#24 | Posted by sames1 at 2013-03-01 07:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

#21 | Posted by soheifox

Myth busters did a cool myth that a very loud sound system could not make a SKS go off by accident

#25 | Posted by zack991 at 2013-03-01 08:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

I think we have evidence, however sketchy, that the gun was loaded rather than unloaded.

#24 | POSTED BY SAMES1 AT 2013-03-01 07:43 PM | REPLY | FLAG:

See, if the story was a little more clear, you wouldn't have gotten it wrong. What happened was...

The unloaded .380 pistol was locked in a portable gun safe locked in the trunk. While driving, the man began to whistle his favorite tune. Unfortunately, it was the same tune he had trained his dog with to go fetch his gun and bullets. While naively whistling away, the dog climbed out the window of the moving vehicle, entered the locked trunk (picked the lock of course), used a false set of prints to open the bio-secured gun safe, and fetched the gun and the bullets. Sliding back into the passenger seat, Fido proceeded to load the weapon when, to his horror, he realized he accidentally had grabbed the 9mm... while attempting to climb back out the window, Fido accidentally lost his grip on the weapon, watching with fascinated horror as it tumbled to the passenger seat and then onto the floor. As the gun tumbled to the floor, Fido instinctively reached for the weapon and his left front paw ended up in the trigger guard. Before he could react, the weapon went off, wounding his owner, who until that moment had still been whistling his favorite tune.

Next time, read the story and you won't make mistaken assumptions...

#26 | Posted by bartimus at 2013-03-01 11:17 PM | Reply | Flag: