Media alert: Seems like MSN is trying to make a trend of stories of bumbling gun owners who shoot themselves. On their version of this story they had several links to related stories of other incidents, all with disparaging titles. Trying to portray gun owners as stupid and running any mishap they can find as national news.
check CA "approved" handgun list .... they require drop testing .... horizontal, vertical, etc...hammer cocked ...
This might be an issue with the hammer
not cocked. The gun can discharge without a trigger pull if it's accidentally left resting on a live round rather than a safety notch, because there's no transfer bar type safety. All it takes is a little pressure, not much, if there's contact, so a bump or fall can definitely do it. Maybe the bowling guy missed the safety notch when loading and had it sitting on a round, operator error.
On the other hand, NAA previously had an issue with double discharge (two rounds going off when the hammer fell on one round, and of course only one of those would be in line with the barrel) which they attributed to a certain brand of ammo. If a round untouched by the firing pin in a revolver can discharge, to me that's strange. That's why I'm curious about this particular AD!