As Kirk would say "Stop touching it, just stop it".
If you give a hoot about your loved ones in the house:
The more you handle it, the more the odds increase you will have a negligent discharge.
The gun should remain loaded and ready to fire at all times, unless being cleaned or practicing dry fire.
The "loaded" gun should always remain under your control. If it stops being under your control, then lock it up. On the shelf does not cut it.
Preferably it should be in a holster that you can remove from your body, leave the gun in the holster and lock it up in the holster. Repeat process when you want to wear it. Leave it in the holster.
It's not for show and tell either. Leave it alone.
If you are not loading it and unloading it pointed at a sand barrel, you are doing it wrong.
It always amazes me that folks will spend $800.00 on a gun, then want to cheapout on the $14.00 holster that is dangerous, or not want to spend $20.00 on some sort of lock box.
Then I've been doing it wrong my entire life and its my assumption I'll continue down the wrong path. Come to think of it, I've never seen a single person load nor unload a gun pointed into a sand barrel.If you are not loading it and unloading it pointed at a sand barrel, you are doing it wrong.
Then I've been doing it wrong my entire life and its my assumption I'll continue down the wrong path. Come to think of it, I've never seen a single person load nor unload a gun pointed into a sand barrel.
Then I've been doing it wrong my entire life and its my assumption I'll continue down the wrong path. Come to think of it, I've never seen a single person load nor unload a gun pointed into a sand barrel.
Then I've been doing it wrong my entire life and its my assumption I'll continue down the wrong path. Come to think of it, I've never seen a single person load nor unload a gun pointed into a sand barrel.
Well said. Rep inbound.As Kirk would say "Stop touching it, just stop it".
If you give a hoot about your loved ones in the house:
The more you handle it, the more the odds increase you will have a negligent discharge.
The gun should remain loaded and ready to fire at all times, unless being cleaned or practicing dry fire.
The "loaded" gun should always remain under your control. If it stops being under your control, then lock it up. On the shelf does not cut it.
Preferably it should be in a holster that you can remove from your body, leave the gun in the holster and lock it up in the holster. Repeat process when you want to wear it. Leave it in the holster.
It's not for show and tell either. Leave it alone.
If you are not loading it and unloading it pointed at a sand barrel, you are doing it wrong.
It always amazes me that folks will spend $800.00 on a gun, then want to cheapout on the $14.00 holster that is dangerous, or not want to spend $20.00 on some sort of lock box.
I've always got a live round chambered, and pretty much every gun in my safe stays chambered. If a live round isn't chambered the mags loaded and in the gun, ready to rock and roll if the need arises.
Then I've been doing it wrong my entire life and its my assumption I'll continue down the wrong path. Come to think of it, I've never seen a single person load nor unload a gun pointed into a sand barrel.
And that makes it ok how?
I see this exact sentiment at the range regularly. After some yahoo muzzles me, and I call him out on it. I get the indigent "I've been handling guns all me life". My canned reply has become. "Apparently you've been doing it wrong all that time, stop pointing the d*mn thing at me.".
Both of my EDC guns (G19 and M&P Shield(, like most others, stay chambered all the time even when they're in the safe. However, they are also in the holster at all times when they are loaded. I never just put a loaded gun in the door panel without a holster, more than anything just to say "hey, I'm loaded". The two reasons I do this is 1: bullet setback. I don't have the $$$ to never chamber the same round twice as some people do and unload my gun every day. HPs are expensive.. Second is it is just annoying to have to load my gun every time I go out instead of just grabbing it from the safe.