Gun safety lesson goes horribly wrong

A 36-year-old man is dead after putting what he thought was an unloaded pistol to his head and pulling the trigger while teaching his girlfriend how to handle the firearm.

The gun turned out to be loaded and fired, killing him.

The girlfriend told police that the man, whose name wasn’t immediately released, had been drinking for most of the day when he decided to show her that guns were safe when empty.

She tells the Oakland County Sheriffs that he had successfully placed two other guns to his head and pulled the triggers to show her they were empty.

The third gun was not.

He was pronounced dead at the scene northwest of Detroit.

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