Unsafe gun handling at gun shows...

[Yoda]

I stopped by the Pensacola gun show last weekend. I looked into a S&W Model 681 revolver, and the seller picked it up, stuck his finger into the trigger guard, and waved the muzzle right at me.

YES, I know all the guns at Panhandle gun shows are banded to render them unfireable, and this one was, too, but I still get a bit antsie whenever someone does something like this.

I was in a gun shop a few years ago when another customer picked up a Glock and pulled the trigger over and over while he held the gun horizontal at waist level and waved it in every direction, including at me and the other other customers.

...just venting....

- - - Yoda

Blame Congress

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[SCKimberFan]

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[Bartkowski]

If the gun is banded I don't think you should have a problem...but most here do.

 

[SCKimberFan]

I'm sorry. I don't really care for looking down the barrel of a gun from the exit point. Banded or not.

 

[Bill2e]

Yeah I walked in to one a few weaks ago, paid my money gave the ticket to the lady at the table, picked up the handouts & LOOK UP TO SEE A 45 POINTED AT MY HEAD.

I know it was banned, but this idiot (private sale) was standing buy the entrance holding the gun up for all to see when they wlaked in. He was holding it in his right hand over his chest. The result was the muzzle pointed at everyone walking through the door.

 

[Blkhwk41]

The seller might have been 'nicely' informed of his gaff or reported to the show administrators (some of them are very good about stupidity).....


"There are NO gun accidents"

 

[langenc]

Do you have LOCKJAW----speak UP.

 

[tpaw]

I was in a gun shop a few years ago when another customer picked up a Glock and pulled the trigger over and over

How is that possible, you have to rack the slide to activate the trigger ...Was he racking the slide and pulling the trigger over and over each time...

 

[myrockfight]

I completely agree with you. It bothers me when other people do it. Especially when they are using another person as a "target". I know it is a little harder to avoid at a gun show, but there isn't anyone crawling on the ceiling. Aim there!

 

[Norinco982lover]

Man I love me some gunshows but i don't like the guns being waved all around and pointed at me either! Gunshows are shows. Shows of stupidity. And occasionally a nice Cold Steel Recon 1 on sale or a Norinco 982 for next to nothing.

 

[TexasRifleman]

How is that possible, you have to rack the slide to activate the trigger ...Was he racking the slide and pulling the trigger over and over each time..

You can still pull the trigger over and over, it just doesn't do anything.

Someone dumb enough to do that while pointing the gun at another probably doesn't know the difference lol.

 

[Frank Ettin]

If the gun is banded I don't think you should have a problem...but most here do.

I sure would have a problem. Guns need to be handled properly AT ALL TIMES. When folks start getting sloppy about it, they increase the risk of being sloppy at the wrong time.

 

[ZeSpectre]

I'm more than a little sick of this behavior as well.
So as a bit of a social experiment at the last gun show I attended I printed up a bunch of handouts that said "Safe Gun Handling is Always Important". On the front it listed the "Four Rules", on the back were copies of several news articles about ND incidents at gun shows (one of which happened at THAT show a month previously).

Every time somebody "swept" me with a gun let them know what they had done and I handed them a sheet.

Most people apologized, one father used it as an opportunity to educate his teenage son (the son had swept me with a rifle), a couple of guys got all puffed up and defensive, and one of the cops working the show thought it was great and told me to "keep up the good work".

For me the most telling point was that I went to the show with 30 sheets and came home empty handed

Yes folks, during the two hours I was at the show I had a firearm pointed at me MORE than THIRTY times!

 

[John Wayne]

A lot of times bands are cut to allow for inspection of the action.

I always prefer to shop at dealers' tables who keep the guns pointed at themselves, rather than at the crowd walking by--I figure they're more likely to make sure the guns are empty that way.

 

[Tirod]

I was at a show in OK many years ago when a customer was negotiating a deal at the table behind us. He offered a pocket auto as boot on a trade. Pulled it out of his back pocket and handed it over. The dealer behind immediately went through the safe action drill, removed the mag, racked the slide, watched the chambered round bounce off the table . . .

All the guns in the customer's hands were banded, that one got missed. It was a deal breaker that day. The dealer said he would have made money on it, but at that point more than red flags on gun handling came up, like, who's car did the pistol come from?

Always treat them as if they were loaded. We need to keep preaching that.

 

[MAKster]

If you are worried about being swept at a gun show you better just stay home. There are people standing or walking in every direction so the only truly safe direction to hold the gun would be over your head pointed at the ceiling.

 

[1 old 0311]

Was at the Indy 1500 8-10 years ago when some moron had a A.D. Thank God the round went up.

 

[shooting4life]

I was at a gun shop that had a browning BL-22 that was bound up. I was always taught to check all firearms before dry firing. I was able to move the lever down about a 16th of an inch and was able to see the back of 22lr in the chamber. I asked the shop owner to cut the bind and I racked the lever and a loaded 22lr fell on the glass and 5 more were left in the tube. The gun was on display on a rack in the middle of the store. Any person could have come in and pulled the hammer back and that round would have gone off.

Always check, even if it is banded.

 

[HeadlandRam]

I was always taught that "always treat the weapon like its loaded" like most people have on this board.I may be more of a jerk about it but you kinda start yelling when your younger cousin wave's a loaded .22 around you and head