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OMAHA (Reuters) – The son of Nebraska's help controller was scraped in an apparent unplanned actuation at his Dhegiha apartment on Wednesday.

Joel Sheehy, 21, was wounded by a missile that entered his correct disrespect and exited behindhand his correct ear, according to a evidence from the office of Gov. Dave Heineman. He was in stable condition at an Dhegiha infirmary and was to undergo surgery to repair facial fractures.

Sheehy is the son of Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy. He is a senior engineering enrollee at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Joel Sheehy was direction a piece he owns when the armament unexpectedly discharged, according to the statement. book then asked his roommate to call 911.

He was taken by rescue squad to the Nebraska Medical Center.

"We feel incredibly favored that Joel's injuries are not chronicle threatening," Rick Sheehy said in a statement.

Rick Sheehy was appointed help controller in 2005. He and Heineman are Republicans and were elected to their prototypal flooded term in 2006 and re-elected in 2010. Sheehy is a past two-time politician of Hastings, Neb. He is a certified paraprofessional and was generalized trainer of a regional paraprofessional consort until becoming help governor.

The Heineman-Sheehy administration has based the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on the correct to assume arms. They have based armament country legislation and as help governor, Heineman led a information to distribute 22,500 armament country locks crossways Nebraska. As governor, Heineman subscribed a accumulation in 2007 allowing Nebraskans to circularize concealed weapons.

(Writing by king Hendee, Editing by Greg McCune)

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