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I try to make a habit of doing this with every gun I am handed.

Treating every firearm as if it may be loaded was drilled into me and my brothers our whole life, I still check even mine when getting them out to look at, and especially before handing them to people to see.

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no , but i was just a short distance from him. i bought a lot of inventory from him when they moved to South Dakota. His Son in Law and i used to hoist a few. i used his basement range for checking out stuff i bought.
Jack Was a grand Gentleman and i was sorry to loose him as a neighbor.

Please allow me to disagree with you on a fine point of that statement.

I taught my son that every gun was loaded until he personally verified that it wasn't. Don't treat it as if. It's easy to get sloppy when you start thinking "as if."

Know that it is and behave as such.




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So do I, even my own that are in my safe and I know are empty. Every firearm, every time.

I personally like gun shops that have their firearms displayed out where customers can freely handle and inspect them at will.

That said, though, I couldn't count the times I've been browsing the racks in a gun shop and seen customers pick a gun up off the rack, shoulder it, sight down the barrel, pull the trigger, and then hear the sound of the firing pin dropping where someone else cocked it and left it that way.

This led me to think just how easy it would be for some over the top anti-gun/animal rights zealot, or your run-of-the-mill nut case to sneak a live round in one or more firearms when displayed in that manner.

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We're really cutting hairs here guys. As long as you verify every single gun you handle is unloaded, (which you should-regardless of circumstances) people don't get hurt.

gophergunner,



Exactly. Nothing but semantics.

You are anti-semantics? Racist!!

I was at a large box store a couple years ago looking at a sale bill on the gun counter.

I man was purchasing a self defense handgun and ammo.

The clerk was giving this shopper a lot of advice on the best bullet design that was efficient at stopping and/or killing a man.

So I looked up from the sale add and said....

"So.....do you have a lot of experience killing men with handguns"?

Gun shops don't have a monopoly on "Sh*t you see"....

Try working as a range officer right before hunting season opens.....

Everything from new guns with scopes on backwards to old timers with a dusty box of shells checking the old ought-6 for minute of paper plate accuracy.....

Amusing...frustrating...and down right scary...all at the same time...

I did it for three years when I first retired.....that was enough to last a lifetime.....

Now if I could just find a deer wearing a paper plate during hunting season!

Sycamore

Our off-season practice should definitely consist of shooting actual deer.

And some people figure being able to hit a paper plate at 100yrds is good enough....
Sounds like you're one of em.....

America's moved too. No forwarding address.

Not to quibble, but hitting a paper plate at a hundred yards would suffice for about 99% of the deer killed.

Young guy brought in 3 Browning Auto 5's that were rust buckets. Been in the trunk of his car for 3 weeks after he and hunting Pard threw them in the bay upon the game warden's approach. They were in their duck blind down on the coast. Guns not plugged for 3. He wanted us to "clean em up!"

I have millions more. They are better shared around a real campfire!