Safety Violation Say Something Or MYOB

[Zaydok Allen]

I have one friend who no longer shoots with me for this reason and I'm ok with that.

Same here. I used to shoot with a couple pretty regularly. Some of the guy's habits were disconcerting. He would "practice his draw" while out recreationally shooting, but he would pull it out in this bizarre loose wristed, cooked spaghetti noodle like, floppy motion, and then he would actually shoot. He was usually several feet off.

Then one day he had a jammed pistol, and he was violently trying to rack the slide with his finger in the trigger guard, the muzzle pointing at his 8:00 position, and a fellow shooter standing at his 7:00 position.

Then there's his wife, who hasn't got a single clue what she is doing. Every time her gun jams, which is constantly because she limp wrists everything, he just gets mad at her, takes it away and clears the jam, and hands it back to her. Try teaching her.

I basically came to the conclusion that I don't trust them with firearms, and I was putting myself in danger by shooting with them. But he knows everything. Just ask him. It's an absolute escarpment show watching these two.

I just stopped calling them one day to shoot.

 

[brunowbe]

So long as he was only endangering himself (and no one else who were willfully participating), you should have let Darwinism take place without wasting your breath.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

Which is why I would have the action open when show the guns. O have an empty case sticking sticking straight out of the chamber or cable lock doing the same.

I took a gun to a shop to have some work done. I put the case on the counter and opened it up. Then I showed the counter guy the empty magazine and said "No Magazine." Then I showed him the chamber flag in the breech and said "You see the chamber flag." Now this particular chamber flag was long enough that it came out the muzzle, so clearly there was not a round in the chamber of that gun but he looked at me like I had lost my mind.

 

[bottom shelf]

Up until about 10 years ago I probably would have said something. Old age has changed me. Now days, I wouldn't bother unless he was putting me in danger.

 

[herrwalther]

I have handled it both ways, some ways a lot more subtle. I remember one time I was in a crowded gun store and I was inspecting a handgun. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed another customer was checking the scope on a used rifle aimed at me/in my general direction. I took 2 large steps backward. Without saying a word, guy with rifle realized I didn't like being flagged and continued his scope checking with the rifle pointed out the window towards a woodline.