Posted on 03/15/2017 10:44:07 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
I stand corrected. It is absolutly negligence.
The guy that asked him about it is not laughing, he is pissed.
I lost a good portion of hearing in my left ear because of a range clown like this.
He asked me if I would load it for him - it was at that point that I realized that he was completely new shooter and he had picked the "most powerful handgun in the world" to start out.
I opened his pistol and slowly loaded it, explaining to him that it has powerful recoil and I asked him if he would like me to fire it for him first, to show how to hold it and fire it.
He indignantly refused and said that he would fire his own pistol. He aimed it, cocked the hammer, and slowly squeezed - Wham! - and then slowly lowered the pistol, opened the cylinder, dumped out the rounds, put the rounds back into their box, wrapped the pistol in its paper and put it in its box. At that point, I saw that he was bleeding from where the hammer had hit him between the eyes during full recoil.
I warned him!
Very dangerous instructor. When my wife and I took our carry permit training in Tennessee it was the most disorganized and dangerous mess we had ever witnessed. She comes from a family that shot matches at the national level competitively so gun safety was drilled into her head as a child and she was scared of the instructor and his assistants.
50 people coming to the firing line, one instructor saying do not load your weapon until you reach the firing line then holster the weapon until told otherwise. Another set telling those filling out paperwork and ready to shoot next being loading your weapons. Yahoo’s with loaded guns and fingers on triggers sweeping back and forth. Thankfully me and her were in the first two groups of shooters and the first group about to shoot one of them pops off a round accidentally down range thankfully.
We both shot a 1911 in .45 ACP. There was only one other woman in the group and she shot next to my wife and her .38 spl had locked up so she ended up shooting her husbands model 29 .44 magnum and was doing quite well! My wife and this lady were hammering away on the second round of shooters and some old codger was bitching about these women shooting big guns, they couldn’t do that. Now consider this geezer had shot in the first round of shooters and failed to score sufficiently and he was using a .22LR S/A revolver...
Anyway this dangerous range was getting scarier and thankfully we scored passing on first attempts shooting, we got our certificates and got the hell out of dodge!!!
Being a snarky SOB, I would’ve asked him if he wanted to sell it for $100.
Me, I'd have beat feet just as soon as he started waving a loaded gun around outside the stall. Frikkin' moron.
Negligent not accidental.
Son, careless, drunk and a firearms instructor is no way to go through life.
Saw a number of folks say the gun should have been unloaded first. I wouldn’t argue with that idea.
To me, there is no such thing as an unloaded gun. The stakes are too high to think in other terms.
Many a person has died, or been severely injured by a person with a gun who thought it was unloaded. Just don’t do it. Don’t think of it as unloaded, EVER!
Never point a gun at anything you don’t want to kill, maim, damage, or destroy.
Don’t wave it through a plain with people in the path of the muzzle. Ever! Never do it.
Point the thing at the ground at all times. If you’re in a home with people in other rooms, don’t point it in the general direction of them.
Point it toward the edge of the floor by the wall if people are below. If there’s an empty room, point the gun in that direction, again, at the floor.
If someone is not following these rules, leave. Get up and get you and your loved ones as far away from them as you can in short order. If it is their home, leave. If it’s your home, ask for the gun back if it’s yours, and if it’s theirs ask them to put the gun in their car at once. If they don’t want to, ask them to leave.
There are many absolutes when it comes to guns.
I think that is why Liberals are so afraid of them.
They cannot fathom absolutes.
Absolutes.
I forgot one of the most basic ones.
‘No such thing as accidental discharge’
I like to mess with my local gun shop by walking in and asking if they “got any ‘clips’ for my Glock and that I want to look at assault rifles, the most evil black ones they got!”
I get lots of eye rolling, just like here.
I just wanted my certificate and then I was out.
Interesting take on it. When you think about it, it does make a certain amount of sense too.
That weapon should have been cleared. Load at the line people. Load at the line.
Ready, fire, aim!
I think he was recruited by the DEA.
I'd have to disagree with you there. Personally, I consider a firearm to be unloaded when it is completely disassembled on the cleaning mat in front of me.
Otherwise, yeah, it's a loaded firearm.
LOL, I can’t argue with that.
Wait just a second there.
At that point is it truly a firearm, or a potential firearm?
":^)
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