Woman Injured By Bullet, But No Gun

There's definitely something to be said about gun control, but what about when someone gets shot by a bullet that was nowhere near a gun? Yeah, that happened.

The Huffington Post reports that a 56-year-old woman in a Pennsylvania home improvement store suddenly found herself injured when a bullet in her purse exploded, with the casing ripping a hole in her handbag and striking her in the leg. Police confirmed that the woman was not in possession of a firearm. They said something in the purse must have "hit the primer" of the bullet, causing it to explode.

The woman chose not to go the hospital right after the incident — possibly because the police would need to be called and then maybe it would end up in the local paper — but did, at the urging of her son, seek medical attention three hours afterward.

[via The Consumerist.]

So what have we learned here today? Don't carry loose bullets around in your purse!

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