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It couldn't. I'm sitting here with a P22 in my lap right now. They appear to be describing a "slam fire," in which the slide closed and somehow fired the round without the shooter pulling the trigger: unless the disconnector was broken or malfunctioning, a hammer-follow would not have been possible (and in such a case the weapon would have dumped the whole magazine.) If the firing-pin was "gunked" into place or otherwise fixed in the forward position I could see this happening (similar to an open-bolt machinegun), but not otherwise. Additionally, who leaves a magazine in their weapon while cleaning it (the only way for it to have gotten loaded as the article describes)? Furthermore, what kind of moron points a loaded firearm at their girlfriend!? (This kind, I guess.) The only reasonable explanation I can see is the same one that always comes out with these stories eventually: numbnuts either didn't know how to handle his weapon safely to begin with or was fuckin' around (or just plain shot her) and somebody else caught the bullet that shoulda gone into his right foot.
This dipshit shot his girlfriend, either by accident or design. He couldn't keep his booger-hook offa the BANG-switch, she paid for it, and now he's lying to cover it up. Simple. If it was a colossaly idiotic accident, I'm in favour of a Dishonorable Discharge with appropriate humiliation and piss-taking to follow for the next 40yrs. If it was intentional (as such "accidents," esp. with 22s, frequently are), he oughta spend the rest of his life in Leavenworth breaking rocks.
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