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Pretty much standard is "Patrol Ready." Full mag, empty chamber, closed bolt and dust cover. Interesting they'd have one chambered. Obviously the Officer thought it was empty chamber.
I'd bet he already chambered/racked a round and forgot that he did.
Stress often does bad things. Lucky he did not need that gun when the mag falls out. When I watched this the first thing I thought of is all the conversations I have seen where a gun owners claims if he was at an active shooter he would go after them. Look at the shooter, he looked like anyone else. LEO's are on edge looking for shooter. If "Jim good guy" is running around with gun in hand how are the LEO's going to know he is not the shooter?
Interesting
Sure if you have a dedicated self defense pistol or rifle in a secure quick access location, but I prefer to keep empty and flagged chambers in my safe full of guns (Note to self, buy a bigger safe). I read of too may negative outcomes that have happened when loaded guns are removed from a full safe (including one member here who shot himself in the foot).
Everyone gets to decide what works best for them. I've never been worried about shooting myself or others on accident. Checking the chamber before pulling the trigger on anything is not difficult, not putting my finger on the trigger unless I intent to is also not difficult. By everything being chambered all the time, there is no question of its status. It simply is. I question the act of gun ownership for people who it is difficult for to discern loaded or unloaded. It's like in the magnificent seven when the inept farmer is told to use the rifle as a club because he didn't have the capacity to use it as intended.
Yep - untrained/unsafe people, whether they be kids or adults, should be well supervised around guns.
