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Dog Accidentally Shoots Owner With a 9mm Pistol (Yes, You Read That Correctly)

Feb. 27, 2013 4:30pm

A Florida man ran into some unfortunate luck recently when his dog accidentally shot him with a 9mm pistol. The practically-unbelievable story purportedly unfolded while the man, Gregory Dale Lanier, 35, was traveling in his vehicle with the animal.

According to The Tampa Tribune’s Highlands Today, the dog kicked the gun on the floor of Lanier’s truck and it subsequently went off, with the bullet entering the man’s leg. The bizarre incident occurred on Feb. 23, with the Sebring Police Department ruling it an accident.

Gregory Dale Lanier Was Shot in the Leg By His Dog With a 9mm Pistol

 Credit: AFP/Getty Images 

According to Highlands Today, the report described the incident as follows: ”When his dog kicked his [loaded] .380 pistol causing it to fire and the bullet struck his leg. Lanier said he heard boom, saw smoke and felt a burning in his leg.”

Sebring Police Cmdr. Steve Carr said that he hasn’t heard of a case like this before. Later, the .380 pistol was identified by authorities as a 9mm (Lanier reportedly didn’t initially realize the gun type).

Lanier told police that he thought the gun was unloaded. The Daily Mail notes that the pistol, under law, should have been stowed away, making it not available for immediate use.

Considering Lanier’s self-proclaimed surprise that it was loaded, it’s likely authorities are taking him at his word. But, legally, the weapon should have been in a glove compartment, a holster or in another more practical device.

(H/T: Highlands Today)

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  • rray
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:55pm

    Was the pistol a 9mm or a .380. In the head line it’s a 9mm in the story it’s a.380.

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    • Jaxco
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:28pm

      Hello editor???

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    • OniKaze
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:29pm

      That struck me odd as well….

      Plus what kinda moron just puts his LOADED and engaged gun on his car seat to be knocked off anyway??

      That is just BAD judgement…

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:40pm

      RRAY, Both are actually 9mm. The 9mm Parabellum is a 9X19mm while the .380 is a 9X17mm and is usually called a 9mm Short in European parlance. Then I guess we could throw in the 9mm Makarov, which is 9X18mm.

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    • xduper
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:49pm

      I like Glenn, but considering he refers to cartridges as bullets on air, I am not surprised his staff is a bit uneducated about firearms. On a funny note, I was at a shooting range the other day and they had 30 rd AR magazine with a post-it on it which said “magazine” and next to it, a binder clip with a post-it saying “clip”. Too funny! I guess it really doesn’t matter actually. When someone asks for more bullets and they are not in the process of reloading ammunition, then we can assume they mean rounds or cartridges. We can then gently educate them in the proper terminology for future reference. It is annoying though when a beginner acts like they are an expert.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 6:18pm

      XDUPER, I used to laugh at that too. But, he did correct himself on just that point one day last week. And, has promised to try and be say it correctly in the future.

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    • HumbleMan
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 6:29pm

      My brother says “9mm short” is a .380 ACP. Don’t own one myself.

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    • piper60
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 7:12pm

      read the article again.

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    • John 1776
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 8:10pm

      Well, if someone says a gun has 10 bullets in it, it would be somewhat correct in that the 10 bullets are mounted in the 10 completed cartridges. If someone wants to buy 10 bullets, sell him them and ask if he would like casings, primers, and some powder to go with them.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:22pm

      Didnt you read the article? Sheesh.

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      Wolf  
    • sillyfreshness
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:45pm

      He must be one of those low information voters that support Democrats.

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      sillyfreshness  
    • HI_Don
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 5:16am

      Don’t bother with an inquiry to the editor of the Blaze. Based on the numerous spelling, grammatical, and other oddities in most of their articles I don’t think they have one.

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    • Mr. H.
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:33am

      Another name for a 380 round is ’9mm short’. A 380 round is 9mm X 17mm. The bullet is lighter too. The standard 9mm round is 9mm X 19mm. Look it up! Check it out!

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    • Mr. H.
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:44am

      I wonder which 380 pistol that dog licked? First of all, an unloaded weapon does not go bang! Dumb author. 380′s typically have no safety to lock the trigger, though a few do. To make the weapon safer they all seem to be double action. That is the hammer does not lock in the cocked position and therefore ***** as the trigger is pulled. Double action guns have a long trigger travel. That is safer than single action guns. The long trigger travel is highly unlikely to trip a sear from a lick. The squeeze is just not there. This guy lost his focus and shot himself in the leg. Ooh! That hurts!

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    • Trigus
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 3:20pm

      Blaze liberal leftist at it again – really Glenn. Well. the news article said a .380.

      A firearm chambered in 9mm. Properly used, it refers to the 9x19mm cartridge, aslo known as 9mm Parabelum or 9mm Luger. Though several other calibers are 9mm in diameter, they should not correctly be refered to as “nines”.
      9×17 AKA 9K AKA 9mm Kurtz AKA 9mm short is properly refered to as a .380, referring to .380ACP the proper American nomenclature.

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    • Until...Never
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 6:18pm

      If you actually read the article it is clear that the firearm was in fact a 9mm. “Later, the .380 pistol was identified by authorities as a 9mm (Lanier reportedly didn’t initially realize the gun type).

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  • shorelineliz
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:52pm

    Look at that dog’s eyes! He is so plotting on his master. Demon Dog!

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    • MDECKER
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:32pm

      He had no choice! His master mentioned something about going to dinner at the White House.

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    • pitboss711
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 8:59pm

      Guns don’t shoot people. Dogs shoot people.

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  • shorelineliz
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:51pm

    Headline: “Dog Shoots Man in Leg For Refusing to Give Him Potty Stop.”

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    • M13
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 7:31pm

      Headline: Man shoots dog for fear Obama might eat it.

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    • AppleAnnie
      Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:38am

      I heard the owner was on the way to the vets office to remove the pup’s ******. Maybe the pup was a bit upset and tried to get the owner’s first!

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  • stopprintn
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:51pm

    That will teach him to stop buying that cheep chi-com brand dog food.

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  • TRUTHandFREEDOM
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:50pm

    Disarm the dogs, not the people!

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  • Skeeterhawk
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:50pm

    Blame it on Mr. Lanier. He had a round chambered and the safety off. Guns just don’t go off and safeties are not deactivated by sliding off a car seat. Operator error. Lucky he and his dog were not killed. Also lucky it was a .380 and not a larger caliber because that could have gone through Mr. Lanier and his automobile and struck an innocent bystander.

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    • Southerner01
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:10pm

      Not all handguns have safeties. It is entirely plausible that the dog kicked the trigger with his foot, completely depressing it and firing the gun.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 11:35pm

      Though not all weapons have visible safeties, they all do have safeties that prevent firing without the trigger being pulled.

      But yes, the man is the idiot here for so many reasons, such as ‘not knowing the gun was loaded’… his ass was on the line there; for not having the weapon in a proper place- on his body, the cubby, a box- any place but on the floor… again, he made an ass of himself; not knowing the caliber- minor problem since 9mm Short is often called a .380, so he can be forgiven the caliber indistinction; letting the dog lick the gun- made an ass of himself again- almost a ‘dead ass’. All because he ass-umed all the wrong elements of proper gun handling.

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  • MN NICE
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:49pm

    I recognize that dog

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucXXc28rHYE

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  • chips1
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:48pm

    Another case of black on white crime?

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  • ZontarPrevails
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:48pm

    How do we know that this was an accident???? That dog might just be smarter than we think! lol

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  • Xanderson
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:47pm

    Very interesting…. Could this possibly be related to the earlier story of the Muslim cleric’s views about penises and dogs??? He (the dog) probably wanted to eliminate his competition!

    Bad Dog!

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    • spirited
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:37pm

      Very good!

      The lady of the house (if there is one) trained the dog.
      >Evil western woman.

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  • lid.smoker
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:47pm

    Damn, guess I better stop playing fetch with my dog with my loaded shotgun.

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  • normalmom
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:46pm

    Why wasn’t the safety on for one thing secondly he needs to get the gun inspected in no way should it go off being kicked.

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    • Southerner01
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:12pm

      Maybe it doesn’t have a safety. Not all handguns do.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 6:05pm

      From about the early to mid ’80s forward many of these pistols have something of an automatic safety much like SIG, Glock and even the Colt Series 80 M1911A1s had this in addition to their manual safety. It is a built in block that stays firmly caught in a notch of the firing pin. It only releases when the trigger is pulled completely to the rear.

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  • OKNative
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:46pm

    Hey great idea. Instead of Jill Biden going out on the back porch to shot the shotgun, they can get a dog to protect her with a pistol! Ha!

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:45pm

    Gives new meaning to the term “bad doggy”.

    Speaking of which…. has anyone seen Baddoggy around?

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:44pm

    .
    Gregory, I said stop the car, I had to go…..

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:44pm

    As far as I know there are no laws saying you can’t supply guns to dogs or that dogs can’t posses them.

    Hell, I bet they can even open carry. LOL

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:46pm

      Sort of like the right to keep and arm bears?
      http://www.belt-buckle-knife.com/product/right-keep-and-arm-bears

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    • CanteenBoy
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:55pm

      My GSD Eva carries a few extra magazines (“clips” to the liberal media) for us when we go backpack camping. 13-rounders for my H&K 9mm compact.

      That’s a good girl!!

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    • Xanderson
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 6:01pm

      Very funny belt buckle, RJJ– I’ve noticed that Glenn has been sporting some pretty Texas-sized buckles now that he’s westernizing his look. He might need one of these!

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 6:27pm

      XANDERSON, Yeah, I’ve caught that recently too. We used to call them meat platter sized buckles back when I was first stationed at Bragg in the late ’70s. I had been to some rodeos before in Oklahoma and Texas, but had never really seen anybody wearing those around where I had later lived in Alabama, then Florida. Had an instructor in a course a few years later in Vilsek, Germany who made a point of telling everybody new to the country not to laugh at the differing dress between the rural and city Germans. His exact point was to just try and think of what the local Germans must have thought seeing a newly arrived GI in his civies consisting of cockroach in the corner killer cowboy boots, blue jeans long enough to have the back of each leg cuff scuffed heavily on the boot heels, a huge oval rodeo belt buckle attached to a worn leather belt that was over a foot too long that hung down to one side, a black concert T shirt of any variety, then topped off by a huge cowboy hat adorned with a variety of feathers across the front tucked in the pagri.

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  • Cavallo
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:43pm

    What model .380 goes off when kicked? What a stupid design.

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  • Banner67
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:42pm

    dumb, dumb, dumb. It should have been in a holster, that is why holsters cover the trigger.

    B

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  • termyt
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:42pm

    How do you know it was an accident?

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    termyt  
  • Cavallo
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:41pm

    Did the dog pass a background check?

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    Cavallo  
  • braddock66
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:41pm

    We must ban dogs!

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    braddock66  
  • Exidor
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:40pm

    Biden is so going to use this…..

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    Exidor  
  • zorro
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:40pm

    The Simpsons already did it.

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  • TotallyNotATroll
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:36pm

    Verify the source, ‘The Daily Mail’ does a lot of The Onion or The Daily Currant type articles.

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  • woodyee
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:33pm

    It’s not the first time and won’t be the last.

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