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About two months ago, I was at a friend's house, and he showed me his gun collection. Mostly a couple nice, antique revolvers, a few modern revolvers and a souple semiautomatics.
He handed me his Glock 19, and I racked the slide to check for a chambered round.
He suddenly looked nervous, and said, "Uh, you just chambered a round..."
Sure enough, the magazine was still in it. I popped the magazine, and ejected the round, and handed it back to him.
Nothing bad happened, but I find myself replaying that in my mind over and over. There could have been a very bad outcome.
We both did a very negligent thing:
He handed me the weapon without first ejecting the mag and checking for a chambered round, and I first checked for a chambered round (thus chambering one) without first checking for a mag.
On the other hand, both of us kept the muzzle in the direction the least damage would occur, and kept our fingers out of the trigger guard.
As a result of this incident, not only do eject the magazine and check for a round before handing a firearm over to somebody to look at, I also first lock the slide open, or leave the cylinder open, so it is very, very clearly unloaded when it exchanges hands.
I've also reminded more than one friend to mind where they sweep the muzzle, even though they "know" it's unloaded. I don't make a huge deal of it. I just say "muzzle sweep", and they look a little sheepish. Fortunately, I've not had to remind any one friend more than once.
Post your own mistakes, and what you learned, how you changed your actions/routines, to avoid future mishaps.
He handed me his Glock 19, and I racked the slide to check for a chambered round.
He suddenly looked nervous, and said, "Uh, you just chambered a round..."
Sure enough, the magazine was still in it. I popped the magazine, and ejected the round, and handed it back to him.
Nothing bad happened, but I find myself replaying that in my mind over and over. There could have been a very bad outcome.
We both did a very negligent thing:
He handed me the weapon without first ejecting the mag and checking for a chambered round, and I first checked for a chambered round (thus chambering one) without first checking for a mag.
On the other hand, both of us kept the muzzle in the direction the least damage would occur, and kept our fingers out of the trigger guard.
As a result of this incident, not only do eject the magazine and check for a round before handing a firearm over to somebody to look at, I also first lock the slide open, or leave the cylinder open, so it is very, very clearly unloaded when it exchanges hands.
I've also reminded more than one friend to mind where they sweep the muzzle, even though they "know" it's unloaded. I don't make a huge deal of it. I just say "muzzle sweep", and they look a little sheepish. Fortunately, I've not had to remind any one friend more than once.
Post your own mistakes, and what you learned, how you changed your actions/routines, to avoid future mishaps.