Dumb gun owners!

[G-ManBart]

http://kob.com/article/stories/S299578.shtml?cat=519

Eds: NewsNow. CHAPARRAL, N.M. (AP) - Two southern New Mexico men are recovering after accidentally shooting themselves while trying to trace a loaded .357-caliber Magnum as a pattern for a tattoo.

The Otero County Sheriff's Department identified the men as Robert Glasser and Joey Acosta. Both are 22.

The sheriff's department says deputies responded to the shooting in Chaparral on Thursday evening, but Glasser and Acosta were already on their way to a hospital in nearby El Paso, Texas.

Authorities say Glasser was struck in the hand when the gun accidentally went off. Acosta was hit in the left arm.

The injuries were non-life threatening.

Edit: Mods, I probably should have put this in the Humor section...oops

Edited December 31, 2007 by G-ManBart

[Rob Boudrie]

It must be something in the ink. Here's an even bigger idiot.

We had a case out in Massachusetts where a suspect denied that a .380 POS handgun found in the common area of an apartment was his. The below article shows the suspect belongs in some sort of dump criminal hall of fame.

The only copy I could find was posted to firestream.net:

From the Middlesex News (about 20 miles west of Boston) :

Man facing gun charges has a tattoo of one of the guns

May 21, 2005

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- A Framingham man facing gun charges may have a hard time convincing authorities that one of three guns seized from his apartment building is not his -- because he has an exact replica of the .380 caliber pistol, including the serial number, tattooed on his hip, police said.

"I've never, never seen something like this," Deputy Chief Craig Davis told the MetroWest Daily News. "This is like the world's dumbest criminal."

The guns were found on Thursday after two Middlesex sheriff's deputies went to 18-year-old Justin Breakspear's apartment to serve a pair of warrants for a break-in and marijuana possession.

The deputies saw ammunition, a gun holster and what looked like gun parts. Police obtained a search warrant for the home and found the weapons -- the pistol, a 16-gauge sawed-off shotgun and a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun -- in a common storage area.

It would be hard for Breakspear to deny at least one gun was his because of the tattoo, Davis said.

Breakspear is charged with the illegal possession of a firearm, the illegal possession of ammunition, failure to secure a firearm, two counts of the illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun and defacing the serial number of a firearm, Davis said.

Davis said the guns have been sent to the state crime lab for ballistics testing.