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Trust me if you are in the business you learn quickly to clear every weapon you touch, every time you touch it. Period.
I try to make a habit of doing this with every gun I am handed.
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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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Deerstalker; Did you have the Jack First shop on old hwy 14? 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.
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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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. 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. P
Obey lawful commands. Video interactions. Hold bad cops accountable. Problem solved.
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Trust me if you are in the business you learn quickly to clear every weapon you touch, every time you touch it. Period.
I try to make a habit of doing this with every gun I am handed. So do I, even my own that are in my safe and I know are empty. Every firearm, every time.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
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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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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. +1
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have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings
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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. 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. P 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.
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gophergunner, 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. Exactly. Nothing but semantics.
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You are anti-semantics? Racist!!
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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"?
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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.....
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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
...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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... 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.
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... 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.....
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Wouldn't it be easier to just move to America? America's moved too. No forwarding address.
We may know the time Ben Carson lied, but does anyone know the time Hillary Clinton told the truth?
Immersing oneself in progressive lieberalism is no different than bathing in the sewage of Hell.
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... 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..... Not to quibble, but hitting a paper plate at a hundred yards would suffice for about 99% of the deer killed.
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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!
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