Careful With That Half-Cocked Thing

I love the Fark headline for this story: “Gun goes off half-cocked, leaves man half-cocked.”  I’m going to guess that either the reporter got the definition of “half-cocked” wrong, or perhaps we have a mistranslation.  Unless he was packing a Colt Single Action Army, which would be kind of hard to fit in the pocket, the gun was probably just cocked, and apparently aimed at the same.