Idiot thugs examining their own illegal sawn off shotgun accidentally blasted the front window of their home in a busy housing estate.
The North Dublin shooting happened earlier this week and saw armed gardai rush to the area after reports of an attack.
Gardai investigated the scene ballistically and found that a sawn off shotgun had been accidentally discharged from inside the house.
A source said: “These idiots were messing around with one of their sawn off shotguns inside the house.
“They were planning to do a shooting themselves and were playing around with the gun but it went off and shot out the window of the house.
“They are lucky that one of them wasn’t killed or worse, someone walking past on the street outside.”
The area where it happened, in North County Dublin, has been the scene of regular shootings in recent months.
A large scale feud is ongoing, involving local drug dealing youths who are using sawn off shotguns to attack homes of rivals.
A source said that one of the difficulties is that the gang are sawing shotguns and making the weapons unstable.
The contact explained: “These youths are using sawn off shotguns, they could be stolen in burglaries of farms and other places.
“To make them easier to conceal in their tracksuit legs they are sawing the barrel, the stock - the problem is that they are doing it wrong and are making the guns more unstable.
“It may have some impact on the trigger mechanism and is probably making the guns have hair triggers, at least that’s the theory.
“The other possibility is that these people don’t have any discipline or cop on and are using guns they have no idea how to use.”
Feuds across Dublin involve drug gangs who have fallen out with each other for a number of reasons.
The West Dublin areas of Corduff, Mulhuddart and Blanchardstown are causing serious trouble for policing with violent feuds.
There are also violent feuds in Clondalkin, Finglas, Ballymun and multiple other areas.
