Officer shoots own hand

Sheriff Ralph Davis says the officer was cleaning the gun after using it the day before at the shooting range. The officer thought he had cleared all the bullets out of the gun, but when he pulled the trigger to release the slide, the gun fired and hit him in the hand.

[KPVI Ch. 6, 18 NOV 2006]

This just doesn't seem like good firearm design, but one should never aim the barrel of a firearm at any living or valuable thing anyway, except when one intends to incapacitate/kill or damage/destroy it.