Accidental Discharge of a Muzzle-Loader? In School? By the Superintendent?
March 10th, 2010
This seems unbelievable to me:
A Montana superintendent of schools said his replica black powder muzzleloader accidentally fired off a round while he was showing the weapon to a class.
The superintendent was giving a demonstration with a replica of a Civil War era gun. how on earth do you forget you loaded that sort of thing?
Then there’s this from the story:
The administrator said he dismissed the class after the students calmed down and immediately called the school board and the parents of the students to explain and apologize for the incident.
“None of them were upset with me,” he said of the parents. He said one father laughed until he cried during their phone conversation.
If you call me to tell me that you negligently discharged a firearm in my kid’s class, I’m not going to laugh.