Gun rag pictures

Do I find it a big deal? No. Never thought about the picture of a gun being dangerous with just a gun in the photo.

Now if it depicts a person displaying unsafe actions with a gun, then yes, that image pops out.

I grabbed a stack of gun mags and picked out just the ones with single action autos on the covers.

Some had cocked SA auto guns on them:



Some did not:



I guess it just depends on the photo editor’s pick for the cover shot.

Stay safe.

Its just a picture. I dont think we need to read into this much. Next thing you know somebody will be putting warnings and disclaimers on magazine covers. Which then leads to going back and editing old films that had the hero holding a gun with his finger on the trigger Example: Magnum Force film Intro.

Before you know it we are hip deep in Idiocracy (the Movie).

Could just be a micro-aggression. I’m going to the cry room.

I find pictures of guns pointed in my direction to be promoting unsafe and reckless handling and I would like them banned.

PWC said:

What do you folks think?

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I'd be far more surprised if the rubes that do GlamourShots for any GlossyRag managed to get a 1911 into Condition 3 and photograph it with the hammer down.

Cover photos are meant to evoke emotions, and a 1911 in its natural state has a cocked hammer.

You guys are slipping, where would you be without me to remind you of one of the greatest screwups in history.

Point is this is nothing but marketing. And the people in the marketing department at a place that makes guns, let alone some firm in New York has less then a clue as to how these gunz work.

The result is as above.

We all know what happens when you get people that have very low gun handling experience get around guns.....does the name Baldwin ring any bells. These are people that just don't know any better, so bad things happen. That bad thing could be anywhere between the rounds loaded in backwards to someone dead.

Personally if I was running the show at HK, and knowing what I know now, when I send a product out to be photographed for something it would be a non working firearm. Pretty easy, remove the striker/pin, and don't drill the barrel all the way. This way the idiots.....err people at the ad agency will not hurt anyone.

What makes you think that HK provided live ammo & fully functional handgun, without supervision, to the photographer?

starling said:

Its just a picture. I dont think we need to read into this much. Next thing you know somebody will be putting warnings and disclaimers on magazine covers. Which then leads to going back and editing old films that had the hero holding a gun with his finger on the trigger Example: Magnum Force film Intro.

Before you know it we are hip deep in Idiocracy (the Movie).

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LOL. We're thigh deep already.

Then one should only display photos of semiautos with the magazines removed and the slides locked back, DA revolvers with the cylinders out, SA revolvers with the cylinders out, bolt action rifles with the bolts to the rear and semiauto rifles with no magazines and an empty chamber indicator.

LOL, "Fear is the mind-killer....."

If I owned a SA pistol, it's unlikely I'd decock it, unless I'm outside where a gun shot would cause no alarm. Sounds like the photo depicted reality..

I think that you're taking this a bit too seriously than you should care for.

If none of the four rules have been broken, then nothing was violated or promotes anything other than a photo being taken.

Do you get upset at seeing an AR15 being pictured with with it's selector on fire? Would you feel the same with pistols with no safeties and striker fired that's not in it's holster? Or trying to count how many are in the cylinder of a SAA and whether or not the hammer is resting on one?

I see you're in AZ. Those same magazines with those guns cocked on the cover's are given away freely at Gunsite and they're like the mecca of where the four rules came from and is posted almost everywhere. In fact, it was COL Jeff Cooper who created them even. You can't even drive in without seeing them along the way to the school house, shop, and ranges.

PWC said:

I was taught never to lay down a cocked firearm, handgun or rifle, because it isn't safe. You may know or think you remember that it is safe, but others don't KNOW.

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Who says that? If you mean /loaded/ and unattended, sure, I guess but it depends on the context a lot but cocked vs decocked is no difference I can think of.

Seems to have calmed down, but for a while the gun rag photographers were into adding lights so it looked sorta kinda like the gun was at the moment of firing as well. That didn't seem to encourage a belief that unattended firearms would fire themselves, it was just supposed to look cool.

stay away from striker-fired handguns with the slide forward and bolt rifles with the bolt closed.

murf

It is only a picture. Why get worked up about it? Unsafe practices by someone when shooting is the only time I get bothered.

I think I may have misunderstood the title of this thread…

Mizar said:

What makes you think that HK provided live ammo & fully functional handgun, without supervision, to the photographer?

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What makes us forget that customer service at HK might have an odd sense of humor?

Mizar said:

What makes you think that HK provided live ammo & fully functional handgun, without supervision, to the photographer?

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NOT THE POINT

foxmeadow said:

What makes us forget that customer service at HK might have an odd sense of humor?

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LOL. Back then, they had absolutely NO sense of humor when it came to us lowly civilians that werent an approved dealer.

PWC said:

I think such pictures may promote an unsafe attitude. What do you folks think?

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I think people worry about silly insignificant things way more than is healthy or helpful.

It's a photo-shoot, which is a very controlled environment. Dropping the hammer before snapping the shutter isn't going to make anyone out there any safer.

trackskippy said:

LOL. Back then, they had absolutely NO sense of humor when it came to us lowly civilians that werent an approved dealer.

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I recently read somewhere that HK had a new PR person with a sense of humor, saying things like "you're right, we do hate you", as well as other tongue in cheek statements.

Mal H said:

think you missed the point. Take a look at the loaded magazine ...

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Nope, I did mot missed the backwards loaded rounds. I was questioning this paragraph: "Personally if I was running the show at HK, and knowing what I know now, when I send a product out to be photographed for something it would be a non working firearm. Pretty easy, remove the striker/pin, and don't drill the barrel all the way. This way the idiots.....err people at the ad agency will not hurt anyone." I just don't like to assume things that I don't know - that's how Internet rumors start.