Safety Video: Know Where Your Thumbs Are Before You Shoot.

[Gary]

No fingers in front of the barrel of a loaded gun, ever.

No support thumb crossing over the shooting hand, behind the slide of an automatic pistol.

No fingers at or forward of the front of the cylinder of a revolver.

Here is a video that somewhat gets the point across of what can happen if your fingers are not where they should be when firing a handgun.

[HuskerXDM]

"Malfunction"....right....

[NE Bull]

Mental Malfunction?

[Gumby]

Maxwell Smart:  "Ah, it's the old left-handed grapefruit suppressed pistol trick." 

Agent 99:  "Oh, Max!"

Maxwell Smart:  "He missed it by that much!" 

[camus]

Mental Malfunction?

Absolutely.

Or what the rest of the shooting world would call a Negligent Discharge.

[Gary]

Looks like the video could double as a training tape for the care of shock. 

Guy did not seem to broken up having a shorter thumb.   Opposable thumbs in good working order make visits to places like coffee houses so much easier.

[patrickdm]

Embarrassing story. Grew up shooting revolvers. Never owned a semi-auto until recently when I decided to get my CHP. Practiced and got used to it and was always aware of where my off hand was. Until the day of the class. Instructor brought it up in the class and I kept thinking about it. Time came to qualify at the range and I was so focused on everything else the instructor was saying I totally spaced the left hand. Needless to say after that first round I was keenly aware of the left hand, and the slow drip drip drip of blood running down it for the remainder of the shooting. Happy to say I haven't done it since.

[HuskerXDM]

Embarrassing story. Grew up shooting revolvers. Never owned a semi-auto until recently when I decided to get my CHP. Practiced and got used to it and was always aware of where my off hand was. Until the day of the class. Instructor brought it up in the class and I kept thinking about it. Time came to qualify at the range and I was so focused on everything else the instructor was saying I totally spaced the left hand. Needless to say after that first round I was keenly aware of the left hand, and the slow drip drip drip of blood running down it for the remainder of the shooting. Happy to say I haven't done it since.

"Self-correcting error"  Lots of people make it!