Always keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot Always keep the gun unloaded until ready to useTom Selleck knows the NRA gun handling rules:
Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction
Posted on 04/02/2011 6:03:41 AM PDT by marktwain
Always keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot Always keep the gun unloaded until ready to useTom Selleck knows the NRA gun handling rules:
Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction
I am anal about firearm handling in a gunstore. Whenever I look over a gun, the first thing I do is verify it is unloaded. When handing it back I always:
I do not take chances. I want the person I am handing it to to be able to see it is still unloaded.
While I agree with you, what in the world is a real gun doing on a studio set? Gun-safety begins with the owner. Who the heck left a real gun lying around?
Good for Mr. Selleck!
I like all of his westerns: Quigby, Last Stand at Saber River, Crossfire Trail, Monte Walsh. He’s right up there with The Duke as the quintessential western American strong individual.
“Terry Kath” sent me to Wikipedia. I was a huge fan of CTA while in high school.
The little things you learn! What is connection between CTA and “24”?
The Wikipedia entry on Hexum has some very nice information about Hexum’s mother who had his brain-dead body flown to San Francisco so his organs could give life to others. What a selfless act for grieving mother to do!
Jesse Stone should be a weekly series... but then, Blue Bloods is on.
...such as jumping backward four feet, from the impact.
I agree. It is that good.
You're absolutely right, but it's not just the safety rules that get violated. How many times have you seen someone in a movie do something impossible with a gun?
In the movie "Wanted", with Angelina Jolie, they have the characters "curve" the bullet around an obstacle by swinging their arm while firing. I cringed at the thought of some impressionable idiot trying that in real life and killing somebody.
I love Quigley Down Under. It is one of his best performances. I just wanted more Quigley movies!
Only four feet? In the movies a .22 revolver will blow a 300 pound man across a room and through a plate glass window...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlownAcrossTheRoom
“I’d be on ANY side of Tom Selleck!”
Yeah; what you said! He’s the best!
thats what I was thinking
“My respect for Tom just went up.”
I doubt mine could go higher.
That musta been a toughie for them. On the one hand, guns are icky and bad, so they should support him for chastising someone with the audacity to entertain himself with one. OTOH, Selleck is a known conservative, so they have to disparage everything he says. It's a conundrum.
Another manifestation of the liberal universal equivalence doctrine. The truth or lack thereof in your position nor the urgency of the issue makes no difference to the allowed vitriol level. All opinions are equally valid, therefore you may never communicate yours forcefully.
Now this might be confusing for you if you think about the double standard with which they judge their fellow travelers vs. conservatives, but you have to allow for the completely separate, but similar in principle Liberal corollary to the doctrine: If a liberal says something, even if they’re outraged, and even if the thing they’re outraged about is obviously bunk, or something they do themselves, no censure need be applied. Some rationalization can always be found for anything a liberal does.
Not really much controversy here. Selleck is obviously right.
Did anyone ever figure out if Higgins really was Robin Masters?
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