The only reason Britt Reid had a problem is that he ignored two of the fundamental rules of firearms safety: "Always treat a gun as loaded" and "never point a gun at anything (or anyone) you don't intend to shoot." You'd think even in 1967 people would know better. Even if he didn't intend to shoot, he's guilty of negligent homicide. In any case, a single-shot fatality is remarkably bad luck.
shareIt's amazing that the mechanism triggered the gun (no pun intended) at exactly the moment that Britt just so happened to be aiming it right at the victim. I mean, it was triggered by proximity! Still, I very much enjoyed the episode.
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TheSolarSailor is quite right on his point, and since Reid is expressly referred to as the owner of a "gun collection" so is imdb-15906.
BTW, Len Wein wrote a "Batman" story arc with the identical fundamental premise ("Bat-Murderer" in Detective Comics #444, December '74-January '75 through #448, June '75). In his insistence that he was not responsible for the shot Batman claims he felt the gun aiming itself, which even in a comic book was beyond my limits of suspension-of-disbelief.
The GREEN HORNET Strikes Again!
The plan could have gone all wrong had the proximity caused the gun to shoot the birthday cake instead!
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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?