Firearms Safety

[bullit]

I wanted to throw in a gripe (and in fine military tradition provide a solution).  Having recently attended the Fremont and Millard Gun Shows, I am continually amazed at the number of knuckleheads and knuckleheadettes when it comes to firearms safety.  I lost count of the number of times I observed "pick up gun, insert finger in trigger guard".  I find myself ducking and dodging more and more.  Frankly, in this day and age, this is unacceptable. 
Solution:  PLEASE....NFOA members educate/remind your family and friends of the rules of SAFE firearms handling (even if they see a plastic tie in the action/cylinder).  Remind yourselves of the same.  Exhibitors, a friendly reminder from you is in order, too.
Thanks for your time.....

[Hermit]

Seconded.  See it all the time at shows. Saw it at Millard this weekend as well. 

[FarmerRick]

Amen, brother!!

Did you notice Rob A. of Exeter Arms cringing from the sound of multiple idiots finger-f@*&ing and repeatedly dry firing his 2 H&K MK23's(over $2k each) he had on display at the Millard show?  I wouldn't have even had them on display there, or at least had them in a protective case of some sort.

The level of stupidity of some of the people that come through the doors still amazes me. 

[Burnsy87]

Amen, brother!!

Did you notice Rob A. of Exeter Arms cringing from the sound of multiple idiots finger-f@*&ing and repeatedly dry firing his 2 H&K MK23's(over $2k each) he had on display at the Millard show?  I wouldn't have even had them on display there, or at least had them in a protective case of some sort.

The level of stupidity of some of the people that come through the doors still amazes me. 

Wow, respect to him for not throwing fists over the Mk23 thing.

[A-FIXER]

Zoinks, as the cartoon scobbiedo would say, it no wonder more haven't got more signs out reading no touching the firearms, I agree with all the above. Education of safety is key to all things knowing you don't point at what you don't want to kill and LEAVE YOU MITT'S OFF OF THE TRIGGER.

[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:

repeatedly dry firing his 2 H&K MK23's

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]

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

Now THAT I can completely understand. 

[Chris Z]

I quit going to gunshows, one reason there is poor gun handling everywhere. But it also gets old paying $4 or $5 to go in and look at the same overpriced junk over and over. Used to go only to get cheap reloading supplies, but those don't exist any more (Cheap ones)