[Joe Brower]

[oyez]

Be sure your target is worth the ammo.

[OKSooner]

Fifth Rule of Gun Safety:

Don't run off downrange at the worst possible moment without checking with your rangemaster when the OSU - looking dudes you're sharing the range with are just getting back from having been downrange. (Guaranteed, someone of them is guaranteed to pick up a rifle and point it downrange at you and your kid.)

Sixth Rule of Gun Safety:

If you've ever broken rule number five, or plan on breaking rule number five in the future, (especially after having had the talk about who is taking whom shooting in front of witnesses), don't ever ask OKSooner to take you shooting again.

EV-ER.

(Rule number seven: No exemption for either of the above based on race or gender, or for clergy...)

[Smokin' Joe]

After nearly half a century of following those basic ideas (not sure they were "rules" when my dad and granddad taught them to me), I have yet to shoot anything I did not intend to.

Works for me.

Not loading your firearm until it is ready for use is a conundrum. It isn't ready until loaded.

[GailA]

First things I was taught! And to empty the clip/chambers into the prep. Ex LEOS taught my gun safety class.