Common Sense with loaded guns

[Doc In UPlace]

Some of the rules, let's include all four:

All guns are always loaded.
Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.

 

[NWCustomFirearms]

Gun Shops actually need this...

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Can you build one of these for me?

 

[NWCustomFirearms]

Suggestion:

You probably have a business card.

On the back of that business card, print some of the rules of safe gun handling.

The next time someone violates one or more of them, take a pen, underline the rules they violated and give them the card and then tell them to leave.

Thats a good idea, I might have to do that on my next batch of cards

 

[NWCustomFirearms]

I guess the way to start any signage would be in big letters NO LOADED GUNS. Then everyone would say WTF? and read it
And if someone sweeps me, I would gladly bytch slap them without regard. Shoot I about bytch slapped a kid(yes he was 18+) for slamming a revolver closed
Slap with your weak hand,draw with your strong

I have two signs, one that says to leave guns holstered and another one, red sign with white letters that you walk past as you enter the door that says NO LIVE AMMO

 

[tac]

Is he a member of NWFA?

More likely to be a member of WTF?

tac

 

[Blackcobra]

I have two signs, one that says to leave guns holstered and another one, red sign with white letters that you walk past as you enter the door that says NO LIVE AMMO

You have something like this, as well:

 

[PaulB47]

The absolute number (not just the rate) of accidental gun deaths has been going down ever since they started monitoring it in the early 20th century - even as the number of guns and gun owners increased substantially. So, however bad things are now, they were a heck of a lot worse years ago - watch any John Wayne movie to get an idea.

Jeff Cooper did a very good thing in coming up with his 4 rules. Many lives were saved.

 

[speleologist]

Sometimes "stupidity" can be fixed by proper training. I for one am not opposed to helping fools find the path to proper gun handling. But those who are not trainable, for whatever reason, need to have their guns replaced with, as ORYGUNHolsterCompany said, a sharp stick.

I know that had I been there, and gotten over the shock quick enough, I would have said something. If I could have kept my cool, it would have been a teaching moment. However, I suspect I would have lost it and you would have ejected me from your store.

 

[Monica Cowles]

...This has happened twice now, last time was some idiot open carrying a 1911 and when he re-holstered it after I looked it he thought he was a TV cowboy and twirled it on his finger.

*GASP* Oh my word.
This is the kind of stuff that makes my recreational range trips very flexible. Most of the time, no one is there--it's a pretty rustic little place, but if there is, I find something else to do. Just don't trust anyone I don't know on a firing line next to me.
I've already had to tell more than one fella, "Sir, PLEASE point that muzzle downrange!!" Then they act like I am a hysterical female for asking...
Grrr....

 

[Lazyfaire]

I was in a certain unnamed shooting range on the westside this weekend. It was busy so i waited my turn. When called i packed up and went back to the 8 lane range to find maybe 20+ people back there standing around and waiting their turns. Was a big group of associated people. I do not like people standing or moving around behind me at a range. Tried to stay in my armored cubby, shot what I wanted to shoot and scampered out. Makes me nervous. I can control me, but not other people!

 

[Joe13]

I like my home range - though I haven't been able to use it much lately.

A little stiff on the regs and rules but I've never felt unsafe there

 

[Flopsweat]

I like my home range - though I haven't been able to use it much lately.

A little stiff on the regs and rules but I've never felt unsafe there

I so greatly prefer private ranges. There is a very well known indoor range near us that is open to the public. Some of the folks who visit are less than attentive with their muzzles.

I was in a certain unnamed shooting range on the westside this weekend. It was busy so i waited my turn. When called i packed up and went back to the 8 lane range to find maybe 20+ people back there standing around and waiting their turns. Was a big group of associated people. I do not like people standing or moving around behind me at a range. Tried to stay in my armored cubby, shot what I wanted to shoot and scampered out. Makes me nervous. I can control me, but not other people!

That gives me the willies too. More at the public ranges than the private ones.

 

[gimpy51]

Sometimes I hate having a shop where retards show up with guns..

Call them what they are, Stupid. Please don't call them retarded. Smile

 

[gimpy51]

Gun safety and common sense don't always go together, add in a heaping dose of testosterone and things can get ugly really quick! Good on you for keeping your cool. I know I would have a hard time with being swept with a loaded gun, let alone any gun, loaded or not! It's these people that have ND's that we always hear about, the same ones that end up killing some one because they have no clue about gun safety, they have no business having a firearm!

I'm not to sure (At least if I owned the store) I'd have let him keep that gun in his hand. Not sure I wouldn't have taken it from him. Secured it in some manner, pack it up and hand it to his wife and ask her to take it with her while I personally escorted him out. I doubt I would have had to ask him not to return.

 

[gimpy51]

A buddy of mine does that. They had a guy ask to look at a gun and take off with it, but not before he wandered around in front of a few cameras. They got some real nice pictures. It didn't take long to find him.

Personally, I'd rather have a button that secures the door. I've never been in a gun store that didn't have armed salesmen. Cameras are the most important. Couldn't be extremely expensive and much more immediate.

 

[Doc In UPlace]

Why is 'common' sense... so rare?

 

[Joe13]

Why is 'common' sense... so rare?

Parents ain't raisin thur kids rite and it's snowballin with every gernration

 

[45 for me]

Is he a member of NWFA?

More like NWA

 

[Flopsweat]

Personally, I'd rather have a button that secures the door. I've never been in a gun store that didn't have armed salesmen. Cameras are the most important. Couldn't be extremely expensive and much more immediate.

Not a bad idea. Might put your employees at risk if the thief makes a fuss, but on the plus side you get to watch him defile his pants when the door won't open.

 

[gimpy51]

Perhaps because both parents (if they are together) must work to support the family. As things get worse, they work more hours and get less pay. Plus, fewer are working and fewer can afford to have the kind of families we had 50-60 years ago. All that money is still here, it's just hoarded by a few.

You tell me, what have we allowed to happen to common since?