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A man barred from owning or possessing a firearm was caught after his lawyer accidentally fired a gun in a Fairless Hills law firm, police said.
Norman Long, 76, of Bristol Township, is facing charges of persons not to possess, use, manufacture, control, sell or transfer firearms and reckless endangerment.
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Falls Township police were dispatched in late October 2012 to the Jackson, Cook, Caracappa & Bloom Law Office on Oxford Valley Road for “reports of a firearm having been discharged in the office,” according to an affidavit of probable cause.
A lawyer at the firm discovered a gun had been fired and the bullet was lodged in wall, police said. Investigators found the slug traveled through the wall of an office, a hallway, a kitchenette, a door and across another lawyer’s office before lodging in an exterior wall.
No one was injured.
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One of the law firm partners told police he was talking with Long, who is a client, about purchasing the small firearm the 76-year-old owned. While the checking to see if the gun was loaded, the lawyer accidentally fired the gun, police said.
It was learned during the course of investigation, according to police, that Long had a prior conviction for arson, which prohibited him from own or possessing a firearm.
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Authorities did not release why Long was not charged with the 2012 incident until April.
Long was released on $10,000 unsecured bail.
