[marktwain]

We will have to disagree. He loaded 4 because he was taught it was unsafe to load 5. That he didn’t know it was safe is ignorance.

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I have an unfair advantage, which I should have explained. I talked to David Chuckallew. He said he knew the Taurus is a modern revolver, but he carried it with an empty chamber because that is what he was taught.

I have run into a number of people who do the same thing with Smith & Wesson and other modern revolvers. I guess we could call them “belt and suspenders” men.

[marktwain]

“Chuckallew” should be Buckallew.

Now I am the one who needs coffee ;-)

[JohnnyP]

How does a revolver work? If an empty chamber is up, do you have to pull the trigger twice to get the first round off?

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“I talked to David Chuckallew. He said he knew the Taurus is a modern revolver, but he carried it with an empty chamber because that is what he was taught.”

You were correct, habit.