Thursday, March 10th, 2016

Gun lovin’ Florida mom says 4-year-old son shot her in the back

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Source: CBS News
Publication Date: March 9, 2016, 2:58 PM
Link: Gun lovin’ Florida mom says 4-year-old son shot her in the back

Stephan: Another story of family life with guns. By sheer chance the bullet that shot the mother did not kill her. The story stood out for me because the mother previously became known nationally as a "good guy with a gun." This kind of accident happens hundreds of times each year in the U.S. and nowhere else in the developed world.

Jamie Gilt, a “good guy with a gun” was accidentally shot in the back by her 4-year old son.

PALATKA, FlORIDA — A north Florida woman told deputies her 4-year-old son shot her in the back while he was sitting in the back seat of her pickup truck.

A Putnam County Sheriff’s Office news release says a deputy saw 31-year-old Jamie Gilt of Jacksonville behaving frantically inside the truck Tuesday afternoon and quickly realized she’d been shot.

The release says the woman told deputies her son accidentally shot her. He wasn’t harmed and was reunited with family members. The Department of Children and Families will investigate.

CBS affiliate WTEV reports that deputies found Gilt with a bullet wound inside her truck with a horse trailer on the back stopped in travel lanes on a highway. She was on her way to pick up a horse, according to deputies.

Deputies say a .45-caliber handgun was on the truck’s floor.

Gilt was taken to […]

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