On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 10:50:59 -0700, jps wrote:

Another example of how humans and guns don't mix. This idiot can't
have an IQ that breaks 80 but has no trouble obtaining nor mailing a
loaded gun through the postal service.

We are apparently a nation of fools, including lawmakers. The disease
of guns needs to be addressed.

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho woman who mailed a loaded handgun that
discharged within the package while being handled by a U.S. Postal
Service employee has been sentenced to a year of probation.

Forty-seven-year-old Tami Dee Bachart of McCall also on Tuesday in
U.S. District Court in Boise was ordered to serve 200 hours of
community service, pay $3,400 in restitution and a $1,000 fine.

Bachart pleaded guilty May 12 to mailing injurious articles and
causing a firearm to be present in a federal facility.

U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson says Bachart mailed a Ruger Blackhawk
.357-caliber revolver in December to Connecticut. But at a processing
center in Springfield, Mass., it fired when an employee picked it up.

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Likely story. It probably fired after the postal employee dropped it.
That doesn't excuse stupid of course and mailing a loaded gun is
certainly that.

The only gun disease that I'm aware of BTW, is irrational fear by
control freaks. That's a psychological thing however.