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re: If a 12ga goes off in a crowded gun store....
Posted on 12/31/20 at 8:13 pm to jimbeam
Posted on 12/31/20 at 8:13 pm to jimbeam
Whenever I take a firearm into a store that isn't on my side, I have the bolt/slide locked back/open and the magazine in my pocket, or double check the tube before walking in.
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 8:38 pm to CheEngineer
What is this? Those two dudes were horrified at what they might see.
This post was edited on 12/31/20 at 8:39 pm
Posted on 12/31/20 at 8:41 pm to No Colors
It's like all the deer pics you see with the barrel of the gun pointed at the hunter or some kid, I cringe every time.
Like this 23 years and it's bound to happen
Like this 23 years and it's bound to happen
Posted on 12/31/20 at 9:33 pm to Philzilla2k
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What is this? Those two dudes were horrified at what they might see.
That's an episode of Top Gear.
Posted on 1/1/21 at 2:43 am to No Colors
I found one in a pawn shop loaded many years ago. The idiot that owned the shop thought I loaded the gun.
Posted on 1/1/21 at 8:48 am to No Colors
Good Lord...
I am insane about checking my firearm to make sure it doesn't have a round chambered
I am insane about checking my firearm to make sure it doesn't have a round chambered
Posted on 1/1/21 at 10:09 am to No Colors
Store clerk should always check the weapon to see if its loaded as well as the customer. Doesn't hurt one bit to double check.
Posted on 1/1/21 at 10:25 am to uptowntiger84
If I’m ever handed any type of gun, I check it unless I’m about to shoot it (at the range).
Posted on 1/1/21 at 11:37 am to thejudge
I went to the gun show in Bossier a couple years ago and found a nice Sharps derringer. The seller cut the ziplock around the hammer, handed it to me and told me to pull the trigger to check the action. I swung the barrel open and it had 4 bullets in it. Fun times
Posted on 1/1/21 at 12:22 pm to Sus-Scrofa
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Yep. And on top of that, most every duck hunter I've ever known has had checking the safety so drilled into them that they can’t even remember putting it on when picking up a gun or after shooting. It’s just a subconscious reflex.
I’ve probably gotten ready to shoot any number of guns and went to pull the trigger only to realize the safety is on. My uncle (he was in his 80’s) accidentally shoot his foot off hunting. He thought his shotgun didn’t have one chambered and that the safety was on. It started raining so he put it inside his slicker, stumbled, and pulled the trigger.
He walked out, drove home, had his leg amputated from the knee down, and kept hunting till he died at 96. Tough old bird and been hunting his whole life but the one time he was vigilant he had an accident.
Posted on 1/1/21 at 8:24 pm to No Colors
I have been at the Baton Rouge gun show at the Centroplex and there was a discharge on two separate occasions.
First was a dude that brought a gun inside without checking it in.
The other was a vendor showing off his carry gun and discharged.
It’s very eerie feeling and weird to hear a gun show go completely silent.
First was a dude that brought a gun inside without checking it in.
The other was a vendor showing off his carry gun and discharged.
It’s very eerie feeling and weird to hear a gun show go completely silent.
Posted on 1/1/21 at 11:06 pm to Sus-Scrofa
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Yep. And on top of that, most every duck hunter I've ever known has had checking the safety so drilled into them that they can’t even remember putting it on when picking up a gun or after shooting. It’s just a subconscious reflex.
Don't know if y'all remember this from last year. Unload the f'ing weapon as soon as you are no longer actively hunting. Always have positive control of a loaded weapon.
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Posted on 1/1/21 at 11:10 pm to Philzilla2k
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What is this? Those two dudes were horrified at what they might see.
The UK Top Gear. Basically 3 British guys goofing off around cars. It’s a fun show.
Posted on 1/2/21 at 3:20 pm to No Colors
Local gun store I use has a couple Mason jars full of live rounds that have been discovered chambered in used trade ins. It's unreal the amount of people who don't even think to clear the weapon even if they are selling it or trading it.
If the story is true and that was a used shotgun pulled off the rack, it's impossible for that to happen if one of several people who handled it would have cleared it.
If the story is true and that was a used shotgun pulled off the rack, it's impossible for that to happen if one of several people who handled it would have cleared it.
Posted on 1/2/21 at 4:14 pm to offshoretrash
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I found one in a pawn shop loaded many years ago. The idiot that owned the shop thought I loaded the gun.
There was a photo I saw, possibly on here, of a 5 gallon plastic water jug on the counter of a gun/pawn shop that was more than half filled with un-fired rounds that were removed from the "unloaded" guns brought into the shop.
Posted on 1/2/21 at 4:32 pm to EA6B
That jug might be pretty valuable now
Now you can get twice the money for a loaded gun as you can an unloaded one at the pawn shop
Now you can get twice the money for a loaded gun as you can an unloaded one at the pawn shop
Posted on 1/2/21 at 5:55 pm to No Colors
Yikes, that's not cool.
Posted on 1/2/21 at 6:18 pm to jfw3535
It really is crazy how all over the place people are with keeping a round in the chamber. I’ve been hunting with guys that don’t chamber a round until right before they are ready to shoot.
Honestly the first thing that comes to my mind is unchambering a round in case there’s a game warden so I usually unload when I can see the truck, boat, or whatever. Now obviously a range gun is different, but I don’t know why you would keep a range gun loaded when you put it in the gun case.
Honestly the first thing that comes to my mind is unchambering a round in case there’s a game warden so I usually unload when I can see the truck, boat, or whatever. Now obviously a range gun is different, but I don’t know why you would keep a range gun loaded when you put it in the gun case.
Posted on 1/3/21 at 12:41 am to baldona
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It really is crazy how all over the place people are with keeping a round in the chamber.
I've known people who carry every day, keep the safety on, and don't keep one in the pipe because they're afraid of ND. They've trained themselves to rack the slide and flip the safety off during their draw.
I'm diametrically opposed. All I want to have to remember to do during a draw is to get the pistol presented properly to get a sight picture and pull the trigger. In that kind of stress, the less I have to successfully accomplish, the better. I don't have kids to be concerned about, so my pistols do not have manual safeties and there's ALWAYS one in the chamber.
Everyone's got his own thoughts and methods commensurate with his training, philosophy on carrying, and comfort level.
This post was edited on 1/3/21 at 12:46 am
Posted on 1/3/21 at 8:11 am to No Colors
A friend of mine got a .30-30 for Christmas years ago. His brother thought it was a good idea to load the gun inside the house and, of course, the gun went off making a small hole in the ceiling. They used Crest toothpaste to quickly mend the hole as the ceiling was the same color as the toothpaste. What they didn't realize was the big-arse hole in the roof right over their parents' bed which quickly manifested itself after a rainstorm. Luckily nobody was killed (or hurt) until the soggy ceiling above the parents' gave way one rainy night. 
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