Police said Moore was eating at the restaurant when the 9mm Smith & Wesson gun in her purse fired, hitting her in the stomach, the Independent Tribune reported.
One has to wonder if this is another example of journalistic fail, or if the dissemination of misinformation is actually the dissemination of disinformation.
I refer, of course, to the statement that, "... the 9mm Smith & Wesson in her purse fired." I rather doubt that the pistol fired itself. Either she fired it while fumbling for something in her purse, or someone else was looking for something in her purse and pulled the trigger. (Or, more likely, something got stuck through the trigger window and when things shifted that object moved enough to cause the trigger to fire the gun.) Guns don't fire of their own volition.