An Oklahoma man who was doing target practice in his backyard on Christmas is believed to have shot and killed an elderly woman a few blocks from his home, authorities said.

Cody Wayne Adams, 33, has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in connection with the deadly shooting, court filings show.

The victim was on a covered front porch with family members at a residence in Comanche when she was shot Thursday afternoon, according to the probable cause affidavit. She was holding a baby in her left arm while seated on a love seat when she was struck in her right upper arm, according to the affidavit. The bullet then entered her chest cavity, it said.

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    And this is why we shouldn’t just let every fuckhead idiot have a gun.

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      Fully agree and I’m multiple gun owner. In my home, the firearms and ammunition are stored separately and nothing is loaded.

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      Gun owner here. The bar to owning a gun is so ridiculously stupid and easy. Anyone who says otherwise is stupid.

      It’s not difficult at all.

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      Exactly! I don’t want to take away your guns. I want fuckheads like these to not be able to buy them in the first place.

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      Gun ownership should come with a psych test and some kind of basic system for ensuring people understand the gravity of the device they are purchasing at minimum. As it stands, I can walk into a pawn shop a few blocks away and have a weapon in almost no time, and I’m all kinds of fucked up.

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        Nope, every time this country has put in some kind of “test” to access a right it’s ultimately used by racists to disenfranchise people of color and anyone else they find undesirable.

        Maybe a mandatory class that’s simple based on attendance could work, but anything that requires someone making a subjective call will be abused

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          Bullshit. I’m tired of assholes using racism as an excuse to not put controls in place.

          It’s just another type of godwinning a conversation. Just claim racists abused it once!

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            Yes because as we can clearly see there are no racists in power abusing the system for their racist agendas…

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          Subjective calls (“may-issue”) have already been determined unconstitutional by SCOTUS (Bruen).