OK, I'm calling bu!!$h!t here. I owned a camera that you could work the film advance lever on, and it looked like you had taken X number of pictures, and thus that the camera was loaded. The only way you could definitively tell was by opening up the back.
I missed about 40 pictures on a trip once because of this very issue. This guy has no understanding of technology whatsoever, and is thus unqualified to comment on guns.
"You can tell whether a camera is loaded by looking at it, and you should be able to tell whether a gun is loaded by looking at it,"
Yeah, I sort of hate to admit this...but I've taken a couple rolls of "film" with an empty camera. I was treating it like it was "loaded", but I couldn't tell until I cracked it open.
FRegards,
I doubt if the author could pour water out of a boot, even with the instructions on the heel.