Gun Discharge at Ft Worth Gun Show

RULE I: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED

RULE II: NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY

RULE III: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET

RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET

Courtesy of Jeff Cooper
 
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RULE I: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED

RULE II: NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY

RULE III: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET

RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET

Courtesy of Jeff Cooper



It is really just that simple. Well summed up by the other JC......
 
I once had the co-owner of a local gun shop tell me that he personally knew four people that had shot a hole in their hand because of front cocking serrations on a semi-auto pistol slide. First of all it totally sounds like BS. Second, if it is true, the only way it could happen is if one were to pull the trigger with one's hand in front of the muzzle.



Back to basics folks!!!

That gray matter in the old skull is for more than to equalize pressure...........
 
In Oregon all the gun shows I have attended in the last ten years require the mags to be removed and actions tie strapped so that the firearm cannot be fired. Also all pepper and bear sprays must be in their orginal sealed wrappers. Someone set one off at a Salem show and cleared the building.
 
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In Oregon all the gun shows I have attended in the last ten years require the mags to be removed and actions tie strapped so that the firearm cannot be fired.



Doesn't sound like that would have stopped this event from happening. I could get a concealed pistol into the Albany show without getting it checked or strapped, I'll bet. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
I feel pretty safe at the Oregon shows, I don't actually see too much bonehead gun-handling taking place. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
[beeep] i almost went to that show....glad i didnt /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

You want some poor gun handling? Go to Cabelas north of Ft. Worth! I honestly lost count of how many guns i saw pointed at people.....
 
I attend shows in North Dakota and Minnesota. Between all of the shows they are run by three different organizations, but all three of them require ALL firearms to be strapped so they cannot be fired.

True, you could carry a CCW into the show loaded, but if you are going to have it on the table, it WILL be strapped. On many occasions I have cut a strap on one of my AR's in order to allow a customer to see the difference in triggers. If I don't re-strap it quickly, I have gotten a friendly reminder from one of the roving gun-show officials.

It is also against rules to have any open boxes or loose ammo on the table.
 
I can attest to the anti gun azzhats doing things to make headlines, and not just anti gun azzhats either. They think that anyone who supports the things they are against is crimminal and so will do and use any means to make themselves look right. Including setting up inadvertent dischanrges, skewing statistics, and even makeing them up. An anti gun person I know told me that in the first year of the Brady instant check system, over five thousand convicted felons had been arrested for attempting to illegally buy firearms. And this idiot beleved it! I showed him factual proof that NO felons had been arrested for attempting purchase, and he just went back on his Brady Bunch rant that "guns are bad, no body but the police should have them" I found this especially disturbing since he was a fellow COP. But he moved back to NYC where I hope he is very liberally happy, he sure did not fit in out here in Gods Country.
 
I think the biggest idiot at the scene was the guy who pulled the trigger on a gun he hadn't made safe.

Of course the vender isn't without fault, but wow some people need to remember the number one rule of gun safety, treat every gun as if it were loaded.

My best friend and I have a rule, if you catch the other one handling a gun that he hasn't made safe, you get a free backhand. It works, maybe you could do with out the back hand, but check your friends, check your self, and check other people.
 
Same thing happened here around 10yrs ago. Gun show in Marlboro, MA. Sounds earily familiar. Customer was looking for a .45, vendor decided to show him his carry gun. Took gun out, racked the action, dropped the clip, handed the weapon to the customer who proceeded to send a round into the ceiling. New rules now require a zip tie through the action.

Jeff
 


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