My wife shot at me today.

[JHV2]

But seriously. Maybe have the pistol checked to see if the sear on it is out of spec. Maybe it got bumped to half or full **** and just her handling it caused the hammer to release. Otherwise, see above.

Even if the sear is completely messed up, a modern DA, SA/DA revolver from any reputable manufacturer would not allow the hammer to hit firing pin (or FP to hit the primer) unless the trigger is pulled. And that is true even if it is cocked. And it is true even if the revolver has the FP on the hammer.

Charter Arms Sample here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcISLeCIWVk
But it is the same for S&W Ruger, etc.

If your's does not, then it should not be a weapon kept loaded.

p.s. for the same reason a modern revolver will not "go off" when you drop it.

 

[00formula6spd]

If that would have hit you (thank god it didnt) and you could not tell what happened , Then wife has to explain to the police what happened. Think they would have believed her? Hope so.

 

[Dingo]

By the grace of GOD you are here to tell this story. If I were you, I would not miss church Sunday.

Yup and buy a lottery ticket!

 

[Shortcut]

Very glad to here OP and his wife are both ok. Crazy incident.

 

[Bypass]

 

[Boz1911]

(My wife is competent in handling a firearm)

Not...........booger hook on the trigger ????

 

[ItBeMe]

We are not getting the whole story. Your driving down the road and you come to a red light and you told her to hand you the gun, Now why did you need the gun at that time. ROAD RAGE you were getting into road rage. The only time you need a gun while driving down the road is for ROAD RAGE. LOL

 

[Jblue]

We are not getting the whole story. Your driving down the road and you come to a red light and you told her to hand you the gun, Now why did you need the gun at that time. ROAD RAGE you were getting into road rage. The only time you need a gun while driving down the road is for ROAD RAGE. LOL

NOT the case. Haha. I left my road rage behind with my bread route job. And I don't know what came over. I just thought to myself "Oh yeah my new revolver, can you pass that over here." She swears she never touched the her or the trigger but like another poster explained, the mechanics don't lie. I give her two sons, and bills paid and that's what I get.

 

[ItBeMe]

But you for got about that time you pissed her off big time a year ago. They don't forget.
That was just a warning Big Boy.

 

[js415]

Sorry, man. But if a bullet exited a firearm and through nothing but sheer luck missed a human by mere inches with no idea how it happened, then by definition, someone WAS doing something ignorant with a firearm.

Investment by both of you in some quality firearms training by a competent instructor will help you identify the cause and make sure it doesn't happen again. Glad everyone is ok!

This is the most important post in this thread.
There was a whole lot of serious disregard of safety rules in that vehicle, at that exact moment.
Why was a pistol all of the sudden, for no reason, "just asked to be handed" to the owner?
Why did the wife pull the trigger? Unless there were some mechanical abnormalities that we do not know about, she pulled the trigger.

Lots of training needed in this situation. Serious, serious, training on safety procedures.