Here is the post from KGB's Facebook page.
"Before any of you hear through the gun forums or other media outlets, I want to get the record straight. Before the Gun Show started this morning in Charlotte, our own Eric made a horrible mistake and discharged a live .40 S&W round through his right hand and into our slide show monitor. As I type this, Eric is undergoing surgery to amputate what remains of one of his fingers and part of his hand. I was sitting a few feet from the shot and the room was full of vendors and their family. Everyone is lucky that this was the worst of the incident. The outcome could have been far worse. No one realizes what could have happened and no one feels sorrier about it than Eric. It was simply a lapse in concentration that everyone should take notice of. It only takes one error in judgement for tragic accidents like this to happen and Eric will suffer for this mistake for the rest of his life. I hope that you will keep him and his family in your thoughts while he recovers. After the Police concluded their paperwork, we loaded everything up and left the show this morning to meet with his family and to offer support. Luckily, my computer monitor stopped the round from doing further harm to anyone there. It just goes to show that no matter what your experience level is with firearms, you can NEVER skip even one step or rule concerning proper firearms handling."
Here is the explanation of what happened.
"He had just arrived to help us out at our tables, he brought in his carry sidearm since it is one that I have refinished in the past to show an example of our work. It appears that he changed mags from a loaded one to an empty one at some point because when he went to check clear to install the zip tie, that's when the shot was fired. In no way am I saying that I think this was accidental. It was pure negligence on his part. He's my friend and partner in the business but this was plain old dangerous negligence. He carries one in the chamber always on the Sigma .40 and neglected to eject that round. When he dropped the gun on the table, the slide was locked back with an empty mag in it.
There will be no legal issues with this, the police classified it as an accidental discharge, took statements, confiscated his firearm(will return when he goes to pick it up) and took some pics of the bits of hand and mass amounts of blood that were present still.
As far as our status with Dixie Gun Shows, I have already heard that he was banned permanently and on my companies status I will find out in a few days. I couldn't blame Missy a bit if she never allowed me back in the place but I hope she will.
His negligence is something that he and I will discuss heavily once he starts to heal. I just heard he came out of surgery a few minutes ago and is resting in recovery right now. I doubt seriously that I can ever trust him fully around a gun again, thankfully he usually only does marketing and office related tasks anyway. I do all of the actual work and handling of firearms in the shop. His dealings with our firearms was limited only to his personal guns and ours when we were at shows."
