New Docs Contradict Senate Candidate’s Gunshot Story

The Washington Post reports:

Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy apologized and asked for leniency in 2015 after he said a gun he kept in his vehicle for bear protection fell and discharged, striking him in his right forearm in Glacier National Park, according to new National Park Service documents released through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The new documents, which provide additional detail about an incident first reported by The Washington Post this month, include a detailed written statement from Sheehy to a law enforcement officer regarding Sheehy having accidentally shot himself on Oct. 18, 2015 — an account that he now says was a lie.

Sheehy, who has told voters he has a bullet in his arm from his time serving in Afghanistan, told The Post he made up the 2015 accidental gunshot story on that October day to cover up a wound he says he received in a 2012 firefight in Afghanistan. A National Park Service summary of the incident, which was also included in the newly released documents, says an unidentified park visitor reported an accidental gun discharge in Logan Pass.

Read the full article. Sheehy has been endorsed by Trump.

New National Park Service documents in the Sheehy bullet story say an “unidentified park visitor reported an accidental gun discharge in” 2015 which “differs from Sheehy’s current account that law enforcement was contacted by personnel at a hospital” https://t.co/rfapkBm4yo

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