I'd love more info on this. I'm guessing he had the pistol free floating in the bag and either something got inside the trigger guard or he grabbed the trigger blindly grasping for something else. Always keep your firearm in a holster with trigger covered even when in a bag off body.
“You don’t expect anyone would bring a gun around where kids would be. It just doesn’t make any sense,” John Gerrard told WBRC.
Statements like this drive me nuts. Why not? I would have no issue with a properly trained citizen having a firearm in a proper holster around my kids when they were young. Wouldn't you want this in today's society? Freaking idiot sheep. BTW, it also drives me nuts when they keeping saying, "Accidental." Call it what it is. Negligence. Just because you own a gun doesn't mean you have a brain.
I don't expect someone to store a gun in a diaper bag full of things you would readily grab without looking. I simply don't understand the thought process here. A completely avoidable tragedy.