"Safe" direction from inside a home

[rodregier]

When dry firing, if there is any interruption of the practice session you start back at the the beginning of the safety clearance protocol/checklist.

I've read more than a few stories about pauses or interruptions with resumption that resulting in live cartridges being fired.

 

[Theohazard]

If you’re dry firing indoors without a safe backstop then you’re intentionally breaking at least three (and probably all) of the four firearm safety rules. Sure, if the gun is always unloaded you’ll be fine. But what about the one time you forget that you just re-loaded the gun because you got distracted by something (a knock on the door, kids screaming, etc.) and resumed dry-firing?

The point of the firearm safety rules is to create redundant layers of safety in case you have a brain fart and break one of the rules. It’s not hard to dry-fire at a safe backstop like a stack of books or a basement wall.

Check out this thread from The Firing Line on the same subject that starts off referencing a Cornered Cat article by Kathy Jackson about dry firing with a safe backstop. TFL moderator Pax (Kathy Jackson) is a nationally-known instructor who has studied negligent discharges extensively and adds some good points to the thread.

https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=590072

 

[scaatylobo]

I'd like to dry fire practice at home, but everything I've heard, seen, or read (and a little common sense) says to always point the gun in a safe direction and have no live ammo in the area. I live in a condo; there is no direction I can point a gun in my home that, in the event of an ND, it will not negatively impact someone else.

How do you guys handle this?

I just bought one of the laser firing DEDICATED Glocks.
It cannot EVER fire a live round and I can shoot at anything in the house,and do room clearing too.
Not cheap,but well worth it for me.
But I also live in a brick house with a basement that is "bulletproof"
And I am a FIRM believer in at least a TRIPLE CHECK of any gun .

 

[D.B. Cooper]

I had a sort of epiphany today. I got my first gun 39 years ago. Since then, I have always pointed the gun at the floor, dry-fired the gun (to release the hammer spring tension, and then out the gun away. Until about 5 years ago, I didn't even use snap caps. It's only been since I had that ND last week that this has, all of a sudden, become an issue for me.

 

[stonebuster]

When dry firing, if there is any interruption of the practice session you start back at the the beginning of the safety clearance protocol/checklist.

I've read more than a few stories about pauses or interruptions with resumption that resulting in live cartridges being fired.

Both of my NRA instructors have had a ND while cleaning there semi autos and both were caused by interruptions after they dropped the mag before they ejected the chambered round. One interruption was a phone call and one was someone coming to the front door of his house. Both men thought they had cleared their guns prior to the interruption. Starting back at the beginning would have prevented both.

 

[FROGO207]

Starting over after being interrupted is the best choice. I do that when interrupted while reloading as well. In both situations there are several checks/steps along the way that all need to be redundant to keep one safe.

 

[scaatylobo]

I just bought one of the laser firing DEDICATED Glocks.
It cannot EVER fire a live round and I can shoot at anything in the house,and do room clearing too.
Not cheap,but well worth it for me.
But I also live in a brick house with a basement that is "bulletproof"
And I am a FIRM believer in at least a TRIPLE CHECK of any gun .

Forgot to mention that over 2 decades past,I suffered 2 ND's.
I am now cured as I am EXTREMELY aware when even touching my guns = which I do lots daily as I edc.