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Man accidentally shoots himself outside gun show in Conyers

March 28, 2015

A man accidentally shot himself in the leg outside a gun show in Conyers Saturday afternoon, according to the city’s Police Department.

The man — who police were not immediately able to identify — was moving his holstered gun in his car at about 12:30 p.m. when it fired a round through his thigh. His injury is not life-threatening.

The incident happened outside the Georgia International Horse Park on Centennial Olympic Parkway.

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