Lebanon police officers responded to Don Fox Park for an incident that involved a woman and the accidental discharge of a weapon.
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I'm not a big fan of carrying a gun in a coat pocket but in full disclosure, I've done it periodically with revolvers pretty much all my adult life, usually in the winter when I'm wearing a coat so bulky that I can't get to the gun on my belt in a reasonable amount of time.
Her self inflicted gunshot wound could've been avoided if she kept her damned finger off the trigger regardless if her gun was a revolver or an automatic, but if she was carrying a revolver with a hammer, an extra precaution would be to grasp the handle with your thumb on the backside of the hammer pushing forward to keep it from self cocking. You need to be doing that anyway to keep the spur from getting hung up in the lining of the pocket.
But this story really begs the question: Why was she pulling the gun out at a park anyway?
