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- facepalm@lemmit.online
A Texas man accidentally shot a child while officiating a wedding in Lancaster County on Saturday, the sheriff’s office says.
Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said deputies were sent to a wedding at Hillside Events near Denton on a report of a gunshot wound.
Deputies learned that 62-year-old Michael Gardner, the wedding’s officiant, fired a gun to get everyone’s attention.
“He was going to fire in the air, and as he did that, it slipped and went off,” Houchin said.
The gun was loaded with a blank that Gardner made with gunpowder and glue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Lee#Death
So two blanks, one with no powder and the other with no bullet, effectively formed one round of live ammunition. What a truly wild story.
He wasn’t really killed with a blank.
Right, he was killed by two, like they just quoted.