Gun Safety Instructor Accidentally Shoots Student During Demonstration

Nothing teaches you the importance of gun-safety better than being shot in class while learning about it….

Gun Safety Instructor Accidentally Shoots Student During Demonstration

A Columbus, Ohio gun-safety instructor got a little too hands on during an in-class demonstration recently when he accidentally shot one of his students.

via Fox News

Police say an instructor of a gun-safety class in central Ohio accidentally shot a student during the weekend.

The Columbus Dispatch reports 73-year-old Terry J. Dunlap Sr. was demonstrating a hand gun on Saturday at a training facility when he fired a bullet that bounced off a desk and into the right arm of Michael Piemonte.

The 26-year-old student says the .38-caliber bullet hit him between his elbow and armpit. He says many of the students in the class were nurses who helped stabilize him before he was transported to a Columbus hospital.

Piemonte tells the newspaper it appears that Dunlap did not know that the gun was loaded.

A police report lists the incident as an accidental shooting.

Pretty sure this guy won’t be teaching many more of these classes for a while.