The New York Post has been all over the Plaxico Burress self-shooting story, so their Sunday story is a natural place to begin this morning:

The Super Bowl hero [Burress], who nabbed the game-winning catch in the Giants' monumental win over the Patriots in February, admitted to the guards that he was packing heat, sources said.

After moving to a secluded area with a guard, he allegedly took the gun out and started to unload the bullets while drinking a glass of wine.

But the sure-handed wideout began to bobble the firearm, accidentally firing a shot that ripped through his leg but missed the bone.

A source said a guard came over in the aftermath, emptied the gun's chamber and then gave it back to Burress.

One of the first rules of gun ownership is "don't drink glasses of wine while trying to unload your piece in the vestibule of a club". And if it's not, it definitely should be. Plus, who drinks wine while unloading a gun? Doesn't that usually happen with cans of Bud or 40s of OE? That notwithstanding, how does one even attempt to unload their gun with one hand while carrying a glass of Shiraz in the other? Plax has never been good in traffic.

Frankly, the whole alleged story sounds a little shady. Cheddar Bob Plax brings a piece to the club, has to unload it after getting caught, goes to a VIP area, accidentally shoots himself while taking out bullets, after which nobody at the club calls the ambulance or the police, which is all followed by Plax eventually going to a hospital two hours after the incident occurred and Giants teammate Antonio Pierce, who was at the club with Plax, trying to hide the gun. Something sounds off.

If Burress didn't have a permit for his weapon, he'd be facing a minimum 3.5 year prison sentence if convicted. 

Screenshot via NYPost.com