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If the platform is not considered safe with one in the pipe it is not a suitable weapon to carry for defensive purposes.
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Hollywood sells the idea when actors cycle a round in the chamber of semiautomatic or lever action the situation is getting serious. Have overhead and been told by naïve people bad guys will leave upon hearing that noise? Television entertainment and movies are an awful place to get firearms training. Real world thugs and criminals might have excellent hearing but the last thing they should hear when confronted with a aimed preloaded weapon is the dirt being shoveled on their caskets.
For those that think they don't need one in the chamber, You have a expensive rock.
If only he was 2o' away and had a knife! booya!
meat on the ground
lool
Exactly same same. Go hands if possible. nothing fasterWoulda had a better chance with a blade then an empty gun at that point!
wtfSometimes carrying commits you to fight. Say you're in the bathroom with pants unzipped. Someone walks in and bashes you in the back of the head. If you draw as a response, and it's got one chambered, you have a chance. If not, have you just supplied bad guy with a weapon? Though most likely you will now be shot with your own weapon, even if it's not you now, it'll be some other poor soul later, with weapon you supplied. Think about that.
That doesn't even make sense.Even when I carry a Glock, my thumb releases the [non-existent] safety on a presentation from the holster; dry firing, at the range, doesn't matter. I have handguns with and without manual safeties. I've noticed my thumb sweeping the [non-existent] safety on revolvers, which assures me that the muscle memory from practice is there regardless of the particular firearm being used at the moment. Everyone has to decide for themselves how they will carry, but for me it is always loaded with one in the chamber or under the hammer.
Hollywood sells the idea when actors cycle a round in the chamber of semiautomatic or lever action the situation is getting serious. Have overhead and been told by naïve people bad guys will leave upon hearing that noise? Television entertainment and movies are an awful place to get firearms training. Real world thugs and criminals might have excellent hearing but the last thing they should hear when confronted with a aimed preloaded weapon is the dirt being shoveled on their caskets.
If someone seeing that I have a gun makes them run away, that's a far better solution than me having to shoot someone.Absolutely, I get so irritated when I hear things like that. Similarly people who think they can just show their gun and the bad guys will run away.
I tend think by the time anyone finds out I'm carrying a gun, they will have already been shot.