Martin
Thanks for sharing your experience. NO ONE is perfect and we all make mistakes. I would tell you about some of mine but I don't have the time. Every time some one steps up to the plate and man's up about things like this it gives us all a little refresher course on what not to do.
Now my pontification about gun safety. If you handle guns enough sooner or later you are going to have one go bang when you did not expect it to... yea I know several perfect people will read this and object... but I'm not talking to the perfect just us folks that were not born a virgin birth. If above all you make certain that the muzzle stays pointed at things that you can replace all the time the worst out come is, fright , disbelief, severe injury to ego , you have to replace a mug, speaker , bed side table and and probably get an *** chewing of biblical proportions by the minister of the interior. Looks like you pointed in a good direction.
Thanks again for the post!