Why carry concealed if the gun is empty?
Why have a 357 in the bedstand that is empty?
My three pistols and two shotguns that I have for self defense are all loaded because if any one of them would be needed for self defense I'm sure the intruder wouldn't respond to a time out while I load my weapon.
“As a lifetime NRA member, I don’t recall any rules from the NRA about keeping guns that you plan to use for self defense unloaded.”
Agree; as a NRA member for the past thirty years or so I have never seen this either. “C.Always keep the gun unloaded until ready to use.” However, if the statement does indeed exist in NRA doc’s, it’s my guess that it comes down to the “ready to use” portion of the statement. As an example, when a gun is placed on one’s nightstand or in one’s glovebox it is “ready to use” and thereby should be loaded. Just guessing though and too lazy to do a search of NRA database...
Warning Shot?!?!!
Sam Colt invented a gun with six rounds for one purpose, deliver those six rounds accurately. I believe Mr. Browning’s invention was designed with the same goal in mind. Neither of them believed in warning shots.
“When in doubt, shoot ‘till it changes shape.”
Scouts Out!
I just received my CWP in the mail yesterday. The training class I took was given by someone I have known for thirty seven years, he had a lot of fun with the idea of people keeping self defense weapons unloaded. He asked if we were going to tell an armed intruder who just broke down the front door to just stand there and wait while we found our magazine and ammunition and loaded the weapon.
He also made a pretty strong case for having a revolver as the carry weapon, even though he owns a whole group of semiautomatics. He picked up a revolver and noted that all he had to do was pull the trigger and it would fire about 999 times out of a thousand, in the rare event of a bad cartridge causing a misfire all that is needed is another trigger pull. A misfire in a semiauto could be disastrous.