“Anything worth shooting once is worth shooting twice. Bullets are cheap.”
EVERY gun is loaded.
Well, if we’re going there… shoot till its down, keep shooting til is no longer dangerous, and if you aren’t going to cook/eat the meat, keep at it (reload as necessary) till it stops twitching.
See, now you’re just wasting time you could be spending shooting something else.
It is? Well if that’s true, why bother checking the chamber when you pick it up? After all, you already know it is loaded. :dubious:
“Every gun is loaded” is a false statement. The gun is either loaded, or it is not loaded. None-the-less, you should treat a gun as if it were loaded, regardless of its actual condition. Furthermore, you should always check the chamber to determine the actual condition of the gun.
It’s the disassembly part I was referring to. The instructions for my semi-auto pistols tell me to pull the trigger as part of the process of releasing the slide.
Back in the day, pulling the trigger (with the weapon at 60 degrees, natch) was part of the standard weapon-clearing procedure. I don’t think it’s recommended now.
No, you just look down the barrel while working the mechanism, and if you see daylight then the weapon’s clear.
The way I was taught (with an M-16) was cock, release, cock, look, release, open safety, pull trigger, cock, release, close safety. The last step was because you can’t put the safety on with the hammer down in an M-16.
Now it’s just cock, release, cock, look, release. Feels kind of incomplete to me, but I suppose it’s safer.
No it’s not.
Yep, gotta see daylight. You can use the nail on you pinky finger to reflect light up the bore.
And then, I still treat it as loaded. It’s just what you do. NEVER point it at something you don’t want to shoot. Of course this can be a little impractical when you are cleaning it and need to look down the barrel. But still, when I’m cleaning a weapon, and I KNOW it’s not loaded, I still make sure the barrel is not pointed at anyone. It’s VERY bad form. You just don’t do that.
There isn’t one rule. Each rule acts as a layer of safety. Each one individually should prevent most catastrophic accidents. Only failure of all the layers of safety leads to bad results. I think of them as fail safes for the others.
I have to disagree. “Every gun is loaded” works best because you may not be familiar with how a particular firearm works, or you may simply make a mistake and think the chamber is clear when it isn’t. Almost every anecdote of accidental discharge starts with a variant of “I was positive the gun wasn’t loaded.”
What’s the protocol at gun ranges and such when someone is carelessly sweeping the muzzle over other people? With the amount of clueless idiots I imagine it’s a fairly common occurrence. Are they just booted out ASAP?
I’m a range officer and they would get a quick dressing down. If they were not contrite or acted as if it were no big deal they’d be going home and have to appear before our board of directors.
I reckon you’re pretty pig-sick of hearing variants of “What’s the problem, it’s not even loaded!”
My actual first rule is to never touch a gun.
When I first started shooting, I was renting guns at a local shop/ indoor range. One time, I go in and there’s one other shooter down at the other end(25 stations, big range).
As I was setting up, I noticed he was reloading his revolver and he was turned sideways with the gun pointed right at me.
I waved to get his attention, pointed at his gun and then pointed downrange.
He flipped me off.
The shop employee was in there in seconds(cameras) and threw him out with no hesitation.
He also comped me my whole range session plus an extra bag of ammo. And I never even asked.
One of the cousins shot an owl. His father was of the “If you shoot it,you’re gonna eat it” group… Yep,cousin had boiled owl for lunch… and supper… He was very careful about what he shot at from then on! No,the owl wasn’t after the chickens,that would have been different
I was taught “The gun is loaded” even if I’d just unloaded it myself. Check three times.
Guns are not toys.
In Soviet Union, gun touch you.
That makes no sense.