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Ever been giving advice to a first-time shooter and something didn't go right? Usually with clear and concise instructions I would think that there would be minimal chance of accident but Im not exactly sure.
I remember my brother was showing this woman how to fire a gun for her very first time. She fired one bullet (.22) and then started waving it around asking if anyone wanted to use it. Everyone hit the dirt at that point. She didn't shoot anyone but man is that scary to have a gun in an inexperienced persons hands pointed in your general direction. Can't imagine how scary it is to have it pointed at you and the person is actually trying to kill you.
I got yelled at, at a range that I will never go to because of it. It was the first time I took my handgun out shooting, bear in mind I hadn't really fired a gun since I was 13 at the time and this is about 10 years later. Well I didn't have a case for it, because Beretta sends you the gun in a crappy little cardboard box, so I had to have the ammunition in one hand, and the gun in the other. Trying to be as conscious of gun safety, I had the gun pointed down range, magazine out, unloaded, safety on, and open action. I get up to the range, pay my $3 and they briefly go over the rules, and I start walking out to the shooting booths. Immediately one of the employees is on the loud speaker shouting at one of the people on the range. I had no idea it was me until he mentioned the color of my shirt.
At that point I was kind of pissed off because I had made the most conscious effort I knew how on gun safety and was getting humiliated by the gun range which stopped all the shooting over me. Come to find out, they got pissed off because I had a non-trigger finger in the trigger guard, in my open action, down range, safety on, magazine out, unloaded firearm. I told them they should make atleast a half-assed attempt at customer service before they humiliate new shooters at the range, inwhich case they gave me my $3 and I left pretty pissed off.
I told them I'd be more afraid of a purposeful discharge at your range than an accidental discharge with the way you piss off people with firearms over the loud speaker.
I've never gone to that range since, I still make the most conscious efforts at gun safety when I do bring my firearm, but since that guy had humiliated, not to mention my brother brought an bubblegum friend along who gave me a hard time about it for years, I left a very negative review of the range on yelp.com and recommended people go to a different range down the highway. Im willing to pay 8x as much money as that range since they have strict rules in place like spacing your shots out every 3 seconds and other things and they will get on a loud speaker if you disobey them.
For some reason, I've wanted to take a FiveseveN to the range and empty a 30 round magazine as fast as I can just to piss the buzz cut guy on the loudspeaker off, and then til him I had no intention of staying at his range other than to break a rule and leave.
Anyways this video for me was a good reminder to give clear and concise instructions prior to allowing a new shooter to shoot.
glock accident - YouTube
I remember my brother was showing this woman how to fire a gun for her very first time. She fired one bullet (.22) and then started waving it around asking if anyone wanted to use it. Everyone hit the dirt at that point. She didn't shoot anyone but man is that scary to have a gun in an inexperienced persons hands pointed in your general direction. Can't imagine how scary it is to have it pointed at you and the person is actually trying to kill you.
I got yelled at, at a range that I will never go to because of it. It was the first time I took my handgun out shooting, bear in mind I hadn't really fired a gun since I was 13 at the time and this is about 10 years later. Well I didn't have a case for it, because Beretta sends you the gun in a crappy little cardboard box, so I had to have the ammunition in one hand, and the gun in the other. Trying to be as conscious of gun safety, I had the gun pointed down range, magazine out, unloaded, safety on, and open action. I get up to the range, pay my $3 and they briefly go over the rules, and I start walking out to the shooting booths. Immediately one of the employees is on the loud speaker shouting at one of the people on the range. I had no idea it was me until he mentioned the color of my shirt.
At that point I was kind of pissed off because I had made the most conscious effort I knew how on gun safety and was getting humiliated by the gun range which stopped all the shooting over me. Come to find out, they got pissed off because I had a non-trigger finger in the trigger guard, in my open action, down range, safety on, magazine out, unloaded firearm. I told them they should make atleast a half-assed attempt at customer service before they humiliate new shooters at the range, inwhich case they gave me my $3 and I left pretty pissed off.
I told them I'd be more afraid of a purposeful discharge at your range than an accidental discharge with the way you piss off people with firearms over the loud speaker.
I've never gone to that range since, I still make the most conscious efforts at gun safety when I do bring my firearm, but since that guy had humiliated, not to mention my brother brought an bubblegum friend along who gave me a hard time about it for years, I left a very negative review of the range on yelp.com and recommended people go to a different range down the highway. Im willing to pay 8x as much money as that range since they have strict rules in place like spacing your shots out every 3 seconds and other things and they will get on a loud speaker if you disobey them.
For some reason, I've wanted to take a FiveseveN to the range and empty a 30 round magazine as fast as I can just to piss the buzz cut guy on the loudspeaker off, and then til him I had no intention of staying at his range other than to break a rule and leave.
Anyways this video for me was a good reminder to give clear and concise instructions prior to allowing a new shooter to shoot.
glock accident - YouTube