[kellyhound]

Banning, Calif. A Banning woman accidentally shot her 12-year-old daughter after trying to light a cigarette with a gun, which she apparently thought was a novelty cigarette lighter.

Banning police say 30-year-old Rachel Avila and her daughter were in front of their mobile home when Avila grabbed what she thought was a novelty firearm-style lighter lying on the ground.

While the woman attempted to light her cigarette by pulling the trigger, a 22-caliber bullet flew out, ricocheted off the ground and struck her daughter in the arm.

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The girl was treated and released for what authorities describe as a superficial wound.

Police say the weapon was a North American Arms .22-caliber, Derringer-style revolver.

Investigators are trying to figure out how the gun ended up on the ground.

[MrCorpse]

morons

[sweetsarah]

fail

[joethurr]

??... lighting a ciggi? cmon... wrong technique..

[Nite]

[Parannoyed]

No fucking way! What idiot thinks a gun is a lighter without thinking it might actually be a gun first!

[Wolf]

[BlueNosePit]

Wouldnt she have shot herself in the face if she was trying to light a cig with it.

[XiphosDragon]

Originally Posted by BlueNosePit ↗

Wouldnt she have shot herself in the face if she was trying to light a cig with it.

I was thinking the same thing.

[Christian-M]

Fucking morons.