This was not my first experience. Twenty or so years ago, on the trap field at the club where I've been a member for almost 40 years and am now a director, the guy on the station to my right had a misfire. He swung the barrel toward me and said, "what do I do?" I hit the ground and shouted, "point it upand and back downrange". He followed me with the barrel. I rolled away, got up and took the gun from his hands, walked back to the firing line, broke it, closed it and pointing it toward the hill where the birds land, pulled the trigger. It fired. I then took the gun, put it in the rack and told him to never, ever get on a squad with me again. He dropped out of the club a few months later. He rejoined a couple years ago and we have had at least one instance of "corrective" discussions with him.
There are people who just don't get it.
When I go in to work Tuesday I'm telling the boss two things: 1) I will uncase and check any and all guns coming in that I'm supposed to appraise, look at, write up for repairs or whatever, and 2) I'm taking a framed target, hanging it on the far wall, up high and before handing any one a gun to look at tell them that the target is the only place they are allowed to point it.
If he doesn't agree, I'm out of there. (sales on my days in the shop are routinely twice the other day's.
Someone earlier made a comment about having guns pointed at them while working in a gun shop as routine. True but it doesn't have to continue. I've seen first hand what gunshot wounds look like, both on humans and on animals. I want to die in bed with a smile on my face, not at the hands of some dumba** who doesn't have a clue.
