This is a tangent from original thread, but this is something that boggles my mind.
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The rules are sacred and never to be broken.
Regardless of what you 'think' you know about the firearm's current condition...
How do you clean your weapon then? Obviously no one wants to clean a loaded weapon, but if you insist it is always loaded, you could never clean it. Likewise, if you want to make the range safe by unloading the weapons before allowing people downrange, how does one ever go downrange if all weapons are always loaded? How about being who need to unload their weapon before casing it or leaving a firing line?
I'm really not trying to be difficult, but there are clearly times when one must consider a weapon to be unloaded to perform certain actions. If the rules are absolute that you must always treat a gun as if it were loaded, how do you field strip it, install a scope, refinish a stock, change choke tubes, or any number of the other tasks that require an unloaded weapon to perform?
How do you reconcile the fact that certain aspects of gun ownership clearly require one to treat a gun as if it is unloaded if you adhere strictly to the all guns are always loaded rule? Do you say put the rule, "Well, it's loaded except for right after I check it to strip it, then it is unloaded" or do you just say, "Well, this is loaded, but I'll strip it anyway."?
I concede your point.
Naturally there are times when one must technically 'break' the rules.
In the context in which the pictures are portrayed, and in which I was specifically referring to, the rules are sacred. We don't 'screw around' with guns.