....To make this point in training, I've taken an officer's gun and surreptitiously chamber loaded a piece of empty brass and then handed the gun back to the shooter. The majority retract the slide just enough to see brass and assume the gun is loaded. If you're going to do it - at least make sure you're doing it properly.
Sure, you can play those kind of reindeer games on the range. Having a spent casing in the chamber of semiauto is only going to happen in the event of a malfunction, broken extractor, etc.
A quick press-check when you are 'saddling up' is never a bad idea in my opinion.
