I've never personally experienced it, but the phenomenon of swearing you unloaded it but it still having a live round in there is why you always treat it as if it were loaded anyway in proper gun safety courses.
Luckily that is why no one was hit. He did treat it as if it were loaded and was pointed towards the bottom of a wall. Which is where the bullet hit. If he had it on a bed or pointed up at all my other roommate may have been going to the hospital that morning
The thing that always boggles my mind is that somehow people can do that and still end up missing a round in the magazine or chamber. Or at least think that they did it.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 25d ago
He claimed he didn't know it was loaded. Which was a whole other can of worms.
Basically we didn't allow guns in the apartment after that night. We didn't live together much after that either.