Gun pictures with items in the trigger area

[RevolvingGarbage]

Can we officially change the verbage to "Assume every gun is loaded until you have personally confirmed otherwise."?

That seems more like what that rule is trying to convey.

 

[youngda9]

^^ No...because we can't all agree on anything around here.

 

[MattTheHat]

This is similar to the folks who get all up in arms about a photograph of a pistol with the hammer cocked. Now, you cock the hammer *and* stick a Sharpie in the trigger guard and goodness knows what might happen!


-Matt

 

[Owen Sparks]

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A famous name gun writer (a name you would know) once hung his locked and cocked 1911 on a coat hook on the back of a public bathroom stall door…only it was not locked! Somehow the safety got knocked off or maybe he forgot to put it on but whatever the cause the pistol discharged three times as it spun and bounced around on the hook under recoil. Nobody was hit but he supposedly loaded his shorts.

OK, I'm sorry, but I've gotta call Bravo Sierra on this. I have five 1911's, carry one every day, and I've hung mine on door hooks too. The hook puts pressure on the triggerguard, not the trigger. Not even close to the trigger. Then there's that whole "grip safety" thing that's got to be defeated first. I see no way a 1911 hung on a coat hook is going to fire.

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It used to be common for custom 1911's to have the grip safety deactivated. Jeff Cooper himself recomended this modification. The story above came from my memory about an article published in 'Guns and Ammo' magazine back in the late 80's or early 90's. It was toward the front of the magazine and had a B&W photo of a pistol hanging on a coat hook to go with the article.

 

[gym]

never heard of man shot while taking picture of gun. But I won't swear it can't happen, people run themselves over at least twice a year

 

[MartinS]

Vonderek. Right, something else in there.

 

[DustyVermonter]

This is a little off topic but it still applies in the sense that people are a little too emphatic about being "safe".


I personally hate it when I'm watchin a youtube video or somethin and the guy safety checks the weopon 57 times and verbally emphasises the fact that he's safety checked the weapon....57 times, it cuts in on the details, no?

Don't get me wrong, I have no sense of humor when it comes to gun safety but come on, it doesn't set the precedent that people need to be safe when handling firearms, it implies that anyone who doesn't check there weapon 50+ times isn't safe, I don't know, something about these safety concerns irritates me.

Common sense is really all that is needed when handling firearms, if you don't have that well then god help you.

 

[Ironclad]

Common sense is really all that is needed when handling firearms, if you don't have that well then god help you.

I agree. What bothers me is people who religiously follow every gun safety law literally to the letter and tell off other people for not being as safe as them, yet the same person will drink and drive or drive like a bat out of hades. Its like guns are their gods and only guns can kill.

Believe me, I'm as OCD as it gets about checking to make sure a firearm is cleared, but once it is for sure cleared I don't worry about it anymore. Empty guns don't go off. The one thing I won't do is sweep another person even with an empty gun because THEY would get uncomfortable not knowing if the gun was loaded. Plus its just plain rude.

 

[avs11054]

When I was getting my training at work, they obviously always preached the four firearms safety rules. That being said, they would tell us that the only way someone gets hurt is if TWO of the rules are violated.

Putting something in the trigger guard only violates one rule. I don't have an issue with it

 

[danprkr]

I have no issue with it. There has to be common sense involved. It's akin to suspending a kid from school for pointing his finger like a gun.

Yep, sounds like zero tolerance from a different perspective. It will wind up where all zero tolerance policies wind up. Namely at zero thought, and from there to zero action. Then nothing is getting done that doesn't posses zero intelligent.

 

[earlthegoat2]

I like the pictures of the loaded guns pointing right at the camera. Someone always has to pipe up about that even when they know it was done with a timer.

Get real folks.

 

[MartinS]

A timer? Like for eggs?

 

[Nushif]

Or as we can see they don't know that most cameras made in oh ... the last two decades have a timer feature. 8)