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A gun-rights advocate is facing charges of unsafe storage of a firearm after a shooting accident in which she was the victim. Sheriff’s deputies in Putnam County, Florida charged Jamie Gilt after she underwent surgery.
Gilt was shot by her own 4-year-old son, who picked up a .45 caliber pistol when the two were riding in a truck on the way to pick up a horse on March 8, The Gainesville Sun reported. The boy apparently shot Gilt in the back while she was driving.
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“Jamie told the deputy she had been shot [3] by her son,” Captain Gator Deloach of the Putnam County sheriff’s office told the media.
Deputies found the pistol in the backseat of the truck next to a toy dinosaur.
The deputies charged Gilt with unsafe storage of a firearm, a first-degree misdemeanor, while she was in the University of Florida Shands Hospital in Gainesville.
Gilt told deputies that she usually keeps her pistol in a holster but took it off because she was making a long drive. She put the gun on the seat but it apparently fell off and slid to the back, where her son was able to get it.
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