Did ya see...

[Willowbilly3]

The show on tv about the Remington 700? Apparently every one of them ever made since 1948 has a flaw in the safety and can still fire with the safety on. Supposedly affects about 1% of them but with millions manufactured that's still a lot of guns. I came in when the show was already going so I didn't see the beginning. One guy they kept going to had lost his young son about 10 years back to the problem. Without seeming indifferent to suffering, I am wondering "who the heck carrys a rifle around with a round chambered, cocked and the safety on?" Our dad taught us at a young age to never ever trust a safety. If you chambered a round but didn't get a shot off, you opened the bolt or took the round back out of the chamber. No gun came in the house unless the bolt was open and they were stored that way.

 

[donsrods]

I've been watching a trial on TV about a young kid (18) who lives in the town next to us, Cape Coral. He shot his 15 year old girlfriend in the mouth with a 22 rifle and killed her. They were hanging out in his bedroom fooling around with the gun and apparently he pulled the trigger and there was a live round in the chamber. He only used the gun 4 times before that and took no gun safety courses, didn't even know the gun had a safety on it.

Another trial I watched was where a Dad took his 8 year old Son to the gun range and the instructor let him fire a submachine pistol. The recoil kicked the gun upwards and shot the kid in the head, killing him. The instructor was on trial for manslaughter for not properly supervising the boy, but where was the Dad????????

I love guns and support our right to own them, but anyone who just hands a gun to a kid without proper education is just asking for trouble.

Don

 

[Bamamav]

My 12 ga sits in the gun cabinet in the bedroom by the bed, fully loaded, but none in the chamber. I figure if I need it, and have time to grab it, I will have time to slide the pump to put one in the chamber. The sound of that pump sliding is enough to make most flee, anyway, without ever taking a shot.

Oh, and no kids here, either. When my kids were small, all the guns had trigger locks locked. When they got old enough to learn gun safety, the locks were taken off. Never had a problem with them or their friends, they knew not to mess with the guns unless I was there.

It's a shame some folks want to own guns, but don't respect them or their family enough to practice gun safety.

 

[Willowbilly3]

I also have several guns in the house with the magazines full but never a chambered round. Might as well have a club as an empty gun. No small kids tho, just me. When I did have a family, my guns were all completely emptied out before they came in the house.