Jon Tester’s GOP Senate opponent shot himself in the arm in a national park

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The article notes:

Thomas J. Esposito, a professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria who has spent 30 years as a trauma surgeon, said that the X-ray looks like an injury from a low-velocity firearm, such as a handgun, and that he found it “doubtful” the bullet was the result of ricochet from an assault weapon because of the smoothness of its edges.

And while guns can and do go off from being dropped, I personally feel that is one of the standard excuses used by gunners when they shoot themselves by accident when they (or others they’re with) have been screwing around with a gun (well, that, and the infamous “I was cleaning it and it went off” - cleaning a loaded gun?)