re: Once again.. Check, check and recheck for a round in the chamber!

That was cringeworthy. Unbelievable.

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blew a whole threw the safe

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whole threw

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Handguns are the worst. It takes a lot of diligence to be safe with them. I hate gun counters at stores.

The used gun rack at cabelas is the worst. I don't understand why they don't have those guns locked in the rack. I bet 90% of the people who pick a gun up at that thing aren't buying one.

Colonel Jeff Cooper is credited with formulating the Four Rules (now often referred to as the Four Universal Rules) of Gun Safety.

Here are Col. Cooper's original rules with his original commentary on each of them:

RULE 1
ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED
The only exception to this occurs when one has a weapon in his hands and he has personally unloaded it for checking. As soon as he puts it down, Rule 1 applies again.


RULE 2
NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT PREPARED TO DESTROY
You may not wish to destroy it, but you must be clear in your mind that you are quite ready to if you let that muzzle cover the target. To allow a firearm to point at another human being is a deadly threat, and should always be treated as such.


RULE 3
KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER TIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET
This we call the Golden Rule because its violation is responsible for about 80 percent of the firearms disasters we read about.


RULE 4
BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET
You never shoot at anything until you have positively identified it. You never fire at a shadow, or a sound, or a suspected presence. You shoot only when you know absolutely what you are shooting at and what is beyond it.

I think it's good to have a degree of fear of all guns. Even though I occasionally hunt and range shoot, I still possess a fear of all guns.

Yep.

I was present when a .308 round went right through the ceiling when the rifle's owner began to clean it.

It doesn't always matter where you're pointing it.

My dad was a cop in the Army and was working armory detail. A 15 year cop came in to return his weapon. My dad told him to clear his weapon. He said "You know it's clear" an pulls the trigger. The shot ricocheted off the floor and went straight into my dad's thigh. This was a cop of 15 years that had to get a weapon out and clear it every day he went on duty. He obviously failed to treat it like it was loaded.

I was at a gun store once and one of the guys behind the counter was showing this girl a glock. When she was done looking at it, she handed it back and he stuck his hand flat out in front of the barrel and dry fired it. Aside from a number of things he did wrong, why the hell would you deliberately stick your hand in front of the barrel???