I am bringing this up because I was just informed that one of my friends shot himself in the leg.
The details...
This man is 64 years old and is a heart patient. He takes nitro pills and keeps a bottle of them in his pocket...the same pocket that he keeps his .32 Keltec in.
He went to grab a pill, and when he reached in his pocket to get the bottle out, it was somehow fouled with his gun, and the gun went off, shooting though his lower leg and stopping in the cab of his SUV. For those that care, it was a Winchester Silver-tip...and it showed little expansion...luckily for him.
He was fortunate. The bullet did not fragment and trash an artery, it just chewed up some muscle and is very painful. He took 4 days off from work ( this happened on a Monday) and finally went back on Friday.
I know that a lot of people on this board carry pocket guns and many of them carry a bare gun in their pocket.
Although I have never recommended carry in that way, and only recommend that you carry in a small pocket holster, the dangers of pocket carry don't seem to get discussed much.
At least in pocket holster designed for such, fouling with other objects would seem to be more difficult.
So here is a friendly reminder to keep you from accidently shooting yourself and ruining your week...
If you do happen to carry a "naked" gun in your pocket, make dang sure that you dedicate that pocket to your gun and
ONLY your gun.
DO NOT carry anything else in it...change, keys, bottle of nitro pills, rings, good luck tokens, your kids chewed bubblegum, even a pocket knife could get wrapped up in it and cause bad things to happen.
Life is hard enough without shooting yourself by accident...