1. With your booger-hooker off the bang switch, don't flag friendlies.
2. With your booger-hooker off the bang switch, load your gun. Now it really is loaded.
3. With your booger-hooker off the bang switch, keep your booger-hooker off the bang switch... until you're lighting something up.
I wonder if people realize that a properly reloaded bullet is functionally the same as a factory round.