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NE Bull:
A friend of mine witnessed a woman fingering a 1911 in Cabela's a while back. Thing was, she was actively 'aiming' it at individual people, finger on the trigger, of course! He ducked when she pointed it his way. My answer was, he should have been leagally carrying and drew down on her in self defense.  prolly not the right answer, but she 'might' have learned a lesson.

Bigtony:
I just spent a couple hours with my 7yr old going over the same thing this weekend.  By the time we were done I think he understood.  If not it will be another weekend of the same.

JTH:
FarmerRick wrote:

--- Quote ---repeatedly dry firing his 2 H&K MK23's
--- End quote ---

Maybe I'm not understanding something---but the problem with dry-firing modern centerfire handguns is what?

True, I personally wouldn't sit there and just click away with a gun I wasn't interested in buying (and I'll bet 99% of the people thinking they were all cool just wanted to play with one---so I agree, I wouldn't have had them out there in the first place), but if I was thinking about it, I'd want to try the trigger before I made a decision.

I agree that people need to learn to keep their fingers away from triggers in general.  I still hate going to Cabelas and Scheels---and out of all the groups of people, I see the worst gun-handling from the Cabelas gun-counter people.  Yeesh.  (Last time I was there and asked to see something, the guy pulled it out of the counter, pulled the mag out, looked at it, put it back in the gun, pointed the gun roughly at me, pulled the trigger to show it was empty (I assume---I was too busy freaking out at the time) and then handed it over.

The next part of our discussion was not particularly polite.

David Hineline:
I think the problem is that people dry fire other people's guns without asking, not that dry firing a modern handgun damages it.

Try selling automatic knives, yes sir it flipped open the first 50 times you tried it, do you really need to flip it open 50 more times?

The worst part of gun shows is dealing with the general public.

JTH:

--- Quote from: David Hineline on December 05, 2010, 12:53:04 AM ---The worst part of gun shows is dealing with the general public.

--- End quote ---

Now THAT I can completely understand.  :)

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