> Do you think that Home Depot should start carrying body armor?
>
> TMT
Dunno, but I think CNN.com needs to get a clue since the article specifically refers to pneumatic nail guns and the pic they used shows a nice Hilti powder actuated nail gun, a rather different item. Of course why would we expect the media to research properly or know the slightest thing about any kind of gun...
Pete C.
> Nailgun injuries soar among weekend warriors
>
> Take a nation of do-it-yourselfers, add a ready supply of cheap
> nailguns and what do you get? About 37,000 nailgun injuries a year,
> according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. >
> Since 1991, nailgun injuries have risen about 200 percent, the CDC
> said in its weekly report on death and disease.
>
> "This increase likely corresponds to an increase in availability
> during the 1990s of inexpensive pneumatic nail guns and air
> compressors (to power the nail guns) in home hardware stores; however,
> no sales data are available for confirmation," the CDC reported. >
> But when the CDC looked at who was getting injured, it became clear
> that the number of work-related nailgun injuries had stayed stable
> since 1998. It was consumer-related injuries that had soared.
>
> "During the 5-year period 2001-2005, an average of approximately
> 37,000 patients with injuries related to nail-gun use were treated
> annually in emergency departments, with 40 percent of injuries
> occurring among consumers," the report read.
>
> Emergency departments treated three times as many consumers with nail-
> gun injuries in 2005 as they did in 1991, the report noted.
>
> The CDC said more needs to be done to make consumers aware of the > dangers.