Below is just a small sampling of incidents related to accidental firearms discharges and/or firearms left unattended in a bathroom. While most licensed firearm owners are responsible with their weapons they are still human and sometimes make mistakes that the rest of us would think to be impossible. Life happens.
A Mount Pleasant police officer discharged a firearm in a restaurant bathroom Thursday night.
A firearm fell and discharged in a bathroom at the Seminole Towne Center mall Friday, but nobody was injured, Sanford police said.
This year’s list of incidents includes an Italian restaurant, a prosecutor’s office, a Target, a Burger King …
Courthouses…. https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/for_the_record/ac-cn-district-court-gun-20181026-story.html
Colleges: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/two-handguns-found-inside-bathrooms-at-ut-campuses/1031500294
Aquariums: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/07/21/utah-mom-wont-be-charged/ found on baby changing table. Makes on wonder where she kept it… diaper bag?
Convenience stores: http://www.indexjournal.com/news/crime/report-bathroom-gunshot-leaves-greenwood-man-facing-gun-charges/article_56fcfaf8-dbdb-5b41-baa0-18c74588f459.html