Sheehy accidentally shot himself in 2015, when he was travelling with his family and his gun fell out of a vehicle and fired when it hit the ground in a parking lot on Logan Pass. The ranger who was quoted in the story was Peach.

This is… Unlikely. Not impossible, but very unlikely overall. In almost all cases, handguns are drop safe; they won’t go off unintentionally when you drop them. What will make one go off is trying to grab it while it’s falling, and accidentally pulling the trigger in the process of fumbling with it.

The exception to this are certain Sig Sauer guns that have recently been the subject of a lawsuit; they’ve been found to go off unintentionally when dropped, or when the trigger wasn’t being pulled.

Regardless - lying about how you go shot is still a big problem. I wouldn’t want a senator that lies to protect his buddies; if his Navy SEAL buddies negligently shot him while they were conducting an operation, he needs to report that shit, and they need to be given additional training.

How can a deep R senator be a Senate flip?

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