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Originally Posted by ericthered
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*Varyon successfully avoids making an ATF joke*
I think this would be preventable with the second rule of gun safety (generally shortened to "Never point your weapon at anything you do no wish to destroy," but it's about always keeping track of what your weapon is pointing at, and avoiding it ever being pointed at something you don't want to shoot). Granted, I've always assumed that was talking more about a weapon you are holding in your hands - a weapon that's laying the bed of a truck (as in this case) or on the ground (in the general case of the hunting accidents you mentioned) would seem like it wouldn't be at risk of just randomly going off, but we see here that such an assumption can have tragic consequences.
In GURPS, this is arguably a great place for Standard Operating Procedure: Always Follows Gun Safety Rules (a Perk)... although most GM's aren't as cruel as Real Life, so your dog accidentally killing you in such a method generally isn't going to be a risk in a game (maybe if you have a Critical Failure on Animal Handling, and then roll an 18?). You
could use this to throw investigator PC's a curveball, when they're investigating a mysterious death... or maybe the murderer claims this is what happened, and the PC's need to figure out the truth.