Treat every gun like it is loaded.

These guys didn't -- and should consider themselves to be very lucky.

Two southern New Mexico men are recovering after accidentally shooting themselves while trying to trace a loaded .357-caliber Magnum as a pattern for a tattoo.

The Otero County Sheriff's Department identified the men as Robert Glasser and Joey Acosta. Both are 22.

The sheriff's department says deputies responded to the shooting in Chaparral on Thursday evening, but Glasser and Acosta were already on their way to a hospital in nearby El Paso, Texas.

Authorities say Glasser was struck in the hand when the gun accidentally went off. Acosta was hit in the left arm.

The injuries were non-life threatening.

And these idiots were lucky.

My guess -- a couple of gang bangers wanting to look tough with their own home-made tattoos. Well, now they'll have "street cred" with their bullet wounds -- as long as they leave town and head to a place where nobody knows the story of how they got shot.

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