Firearms Instructor Killed By Cannon In Spectacular Negligent Discharge.

By Bob Owens

All cannons are always loaded.

Never point the muzzle of your cannon at anything you aren’t willing to destroy.

If 74 year-old firearms instructor Derek Allan Kelly had remembered those basic rules, there’s a chance he might still be with us today.

Unfortunately, Mr. Kelly had quite obviously not cleared his 40mm cannon at the range, and it discharged as he was removing it from his SUV, killing him.

The firearms collector was unloading a cannon from the tray of his ute when it accidentally discharged and fatally struck him at his home in Mahuta, west of Dargaville, yesterday.

Mr Kelly was a …read more

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