Gun Safety Instructor Shoots Student by Accident

One of the chief rules of gun safety is to assume that “all guns are always loaded.”

Sadly this rule wasn’t exactly acknowledged last weekend when a gun safety instructor accidentally shot his student.

Michael Piemonte was at a lecture-type gun class with his wife in Ohio. While the gun safety instructor was demonstrating a self-defense technique, the gun went off and shot Piemonte in the arm. It’s believed that the bullet ricocheted off a desk.

"Everyone was in shock," he told CNN. "It took me a couple of seconds to realize that I had been shot."

"I'm just glad my wife did not get hit."

Piemonte said that many of the students in the class were nurses and helped to stabilize him before he was brought to a Columbus hospital.

Despite his injury, the 26-year-old still says that he will be purchasing a gun.

"It was the first time I've been shot," he said. "And hopefully the last."

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