Joe Rogan Experience #2572 - Colum Tyrrell · Aired Oct 29, 2026
Claim summary · not a verbatim quotation
Oscar Aguilar died accidentally while posing for a selfie with a loaded handgun.
The finding
What remains unresolved
Reports from 2014 indicated that a man named Oscar Aguilar died in Mexico while attempting to take a selfie with a gun. Verifying the specific details of such news stories from years past requires access to specific police or coroner records which are not universally accessible.
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Quick answer & review status
Quick answer
Is it true that Oscar Aguilar died accidentally while posing for a selfie with a loaded handgun?
We can't say yet. Reports from 2014 indicated that a man named Oscar Aguilar died in Mexico while attempting to take a selfie with a gun. Verifying the specific details of such news stories from years past requires access to specific police or coroner records which are not universally accessible. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2572 - Colum Tyrrell, aired Oct 29, 2026, at 1:32:29. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. We couldn't settle it from the evidence we captured, so it stays an open question, not a false claim. No supporting source was captured, so don't treat this as a sourced conclusion.
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