[OXENinFLA]

No Doubt. One NEVER should chamber a round unless you are in front of a target getting ready to fire, or you hear someone in your home and you know you can't rely on the cops to get to you in time and you want to save the tax payers some money by sending the perp to his eternal rest.

[toddst]

No Doubt. One NEVER should chamber a round unless you are in front of a target getting ready to fire, or you hear someone in your home and you know you can't rely on the cops to get to you in time and you want to save the tax payers some money by sending the perp to his eternal rest.

Well, you go right ahead and keep your weapon in a functionally unloaded condition (round not chambered) if that's what you're comfortable doing. What you are ignoring, however, is the very great chance you will be stressed if you wait to chamber a round when actually faced with a threat. That's when you'll likely cause a feeding malfunction and have to clear the gun before being able to chamber a round and be prepared to fire.

Work on your handling skills, learn your weapon and apply the four rules of safe gun use. The Ass't DA in this situation obviously violated all four rules. The gun wasn't at fault, he was IMHO.