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This may be the same reason that DEA shot himself in the leg during a "gun safety" demonstration.

On semi-autos you have to remove the magazine, then cycle the action to clear the chamber.

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I viewed the video of the DEA agent shooting himself. Snopes has some interesting commentary on the incident here. Note at the end of the article, the DEA investigated the source of the video not for demonstrating the complete ineptitude of one of their employees, but for showing his face. Our tax dollars at work.

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And here’s the rest of the story:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0411061foot1.html
A Drug Enforcement Administration agent who stars in a popular online video that shows him shooting himself in the foot during a weapons demonstration for Florida children is suing over the tape’s release, claiming that his career has been crippled and he’s become a laughingstock due to the embarrassing clip’s distribution. Lee Paige, 45, blames the video’s release on DEA officials in an April 7 federal lawsuit filed against the U.S. government. A copy of the pro se complaint by Paige, a DEA agent since 1990, can be found below. According to the lawsuit, Paige was making a “drug education presentation” in April 2004 to a Florida youth group when his firearm (a Glock .40) accidentally discharged. The shooting occurred moments after Paige told the children that he was the only person in the room professional enough to carry the weapon. The accident was filmed by an audience member, and the tape, Paige claims, was turned over to the DEA. The drug agency subsequently “improperly, illegally, willfully and/or intentionally” allowed the tape to be disseminated. As a result, Paige—pictured above in a still from the video—has been the “target of jokes, derision, ridicule, and disparaging comments” directed at him in restaurants, grocery stores, and airports. Paige, who writes that he was “once regarded as one of the best undercover agents, if not the best, in the DEA,” points to the clip’s recent airing on popular television shows and via the Internet as the reason he can no longer work undercover. He also notes that he is no longer “permitted or able to give educational motivational speeches and presentations.”

[Mike-o-Matic]

  On semi-autos you have to remove the magazine, then cycle the action to clear the chamber.

Don't forget the visual inspection. No extractor is 100% infallible.

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This may be the same reason that DEA shot himself in the leg during a “gun safety” demonstration.
On semi-autos you have to remove the magazine, then cycle the action to clear the chamber.

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If this is all you do you are a very dangerous operator.!!!