10/11 news is saying...
According to Captain Genelle Moore, a man had gone to a party with friends and had brought a gun along intending to sell it to someone else at the party.
Moore said several witness statements confirm when the man pulled the gun from his pocket, he fumbled it and when it hit the floor it fired. The bullet struck the girl in the shoulder. Moore did not know why the weapon was loaded at the time.
If he wasn't a CHP holder then isn't it a safe assumption he'd have been cited for carrying a concealed weapon illegally? There's no reference to that.
I am really curious to know what kind of gun it was. Human beings do occasionally drop things, or trip and fall, etc. I prefer a gun that is designed to at least be "safer".