"went to bed Thursday night with a loaded .22-caliber revolved tucked under his pistol"
Say WHAT????? 
yea...that's exactly what i thought when i first saw this...::grin::
Guns don't kill people...stupid morons who sleep on guns kill themselves....what an idiot....
The way it's written and if you use the Marines terminaology, the story takes on a whole new life and I'm not sure what "went off"... 
Damnit one Darwin Candidate that got away!