Ohio man gets shot by his Maytag oven after his gun safety plan goes horribly awry

In the United States, people get shot by their pets, but there's another menace lurking in the American home: armed kitchen utilities.

Forty-four-year-old Robin Garlock from Warren, Ohio, put his firearm in the broiler of his oven to keep it away from children in the house, the Ohio Vindicator first reported.

Garlock failed to inform his girlfriend of his firearm safety plan and she turned on the oven to cook. A little later she heard a 'bang.' Scared that there was gunfire coming from outside, she called for him. He told her to get down and ran to open the broiler and secure the gun.

But the heat caused the bullets to explode. Garlock suffered burns and was hit by either two bullets or bullet fragments. Although his injuries are serious, he's doing good, Warren country police detective Wayne Mackey tells Raw Story.

"You know it's a weird one," Mackey says,  chuckling. "In thirty years I have not had anybody shot by an appliance."

Mackey has a message for gun owners. "Don't store your guns anywhere that's hot. Don't put your gun in an appliance. They make things for that and an oven is not one of the things."

(Note: This article was updated after publication.)