Guns Are Too Complex For Some; Stick With Hickory Sticks
Knowing Conseco, it was probably a revolver.
Posted by Samoore
10/29/2014 at 08:42 PM
Samoore, even if it was a revolver, the first thing is unload it. Swing the cylinder out and empty it. I never clean my revolver with the cylinder in place. Easier to clean. Hard to fire that way.
If it was a semi-auto, mine can’t fire if I dissassemble it properly. Making sure it’s unloaded of course. Drop the magazine, action back and locked to show nothing in the barrel. Same way I would hand it to my friend Mike my NRA instructor. (friends for 41 years) Then hit that magic button/lever that separates the barrel from the frame. Clean away! It won’t fire like that.
Reminds me, need to buy a 9mm cleaning brush. Been making do with the .38 cleaning brush, but it takes longer.
I’m calling bovine feces on this. He was playing around with his weapon and got burned.
What a putz.
The only time a gun should be considered unloaded is when it is in pieces on the bench, and even then take nothing for granted. I agree with Christoper, this smells like the barnyard.
Well, barnyard or not, he now gets a 10% discount on his manicures and everyone’s calling him a dumbshit. It’s really gotta suck to be him right now.
It’s why you have safety in layers, so even if you screw up with one safety procedure, another will still stop or mitigate an unintended discharge, usually called an accidental discharge.
There’s one I will never forget. I was at the range, finishing the last magazine of the evening with a 1911. The slide locked open. I looked to see that it was empty. Released the slide, pointed it downrange and pulled the trigger. It fired.
How in hell it not only locked open, indicating empty, but I didn’t see the cartridge when I looked, still spooks me. Mechanically, the slide can’t lock open when there’s still a cartridge in the magazine and I know what a 45ACP cartridge looks like. Since I pointed it down range before pulling the trigger and no harm was done, I was saved from having a nasty accident.
Two layers of safety failed, the third prevented disaster.
That’s why I preach safety in layers when you’re handling a firearm. When you’re handling firearms, loading them, shooting them, unloading them, testing them, sooner or later, you’re going to have something happen you didn’t plan on. I’d been safely shooting well over 20 years when I had that adventure at the range. I don’t care how experienced, careful, intelligent or well educated you are. If you do something enough times, you will eventually screw up, that’s just part of being human.
There are so many rules to learn in life:
All guns are loaded, all knives are sharp, all fires are hot, all engines/motors are running, all vehicles are in gear, all glass is breakable, all nails are sharp, all hammers are hard . . . It’s amazing that so many people survive so long.3 more rules that really should be taken seriously:
Most tools are not toys and they often show resentment at being taken for one.
Terminal stupidity is a self-limiting disease.
Being a candidate for a Darwin Award is not an honor.
10/30/2014 at 11:11 AM
