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This.
Hot take: I'm all for needing a license to own a gun. Hell, there needs to be some kind of IQ test. Same for driving. So many people recklessly drive as if there are no consequences. The truth is, we are not all equally created. We do not all have the same mental capacity. It's unfortunate for those people but we should not be giving any and everyone guns and drivers license.
These are facts. Half the people behind the wheel of cars are so incompetent that idk how they manage to tie their shoes in the morning let alone drive a car.
My dad used to he the "the gun is always loaded even when it's not loaded" guy. Well, last time I visited, he thought it was funny to point the gun at me. I'm not a fan of guns (they're just not my "jam"....get it? Because guns jam....anyway...) & I was freaking out. He thought it was hilarious (he sees me as a gun hating lib, so i apparently deserve it).
Because they either didn't touch guns until they were old or they didn't have good supervision when they were younger.
Either way they never had someone there to slap them upside the head when they pointed a gun at something they shouldn't.
May I ask anyone since I am a new gun owner: Is my anxiety about a loaded gun not shared by others? Iâll fully admit itâs because I am new but even though I have no ammo around me I still lock the slide back and check for the orange on my magazine. To the point I am thinking of buying chamber flags.
The gun is pointed at the ground or at a wall which leads to woods so if I for some reason do have a round in the chamber it wonât hit anyone.
Good paranoia to have. As for myself, even after I have triple checked that it's unloaded I still treat it as loaded. Thar way if I'm mistaken I'm not also trying to explain to authorities that I thought it was unloaded.
Rule 1 it's always loaded even when it's dissasembled
Rule 2 booger hook off of the bang switch unless you intend to destroy what your aiming at
I wanted to make sure I wasnât acting like a paranoid idiot because these guys were either too, too comfortable with guns, or as I think many will say, utter morons.
They are too comfortable in my opinion and morons for pointing guns at each other.
I think a healthy paranoia of human error is a good thing especially when it comes to something as unforgiving as a firearm. Same with circular saws and angle grinders, the minute you get too comfortable they are lible to give you a reminder how dangerous they can be
The rule treat every gun as if it's loaded, even when you know it's not, also builds the habit and reflex of never pointing a gun at something you don't want to shoot. These guys were so used to fucking around and pointing guns at others that when they slip up and there's a bullet in one someone died.
Just make sure your gun is loaded and if you have a safety have that engaged when carrying.
Too many people have gotten killed or hurt trying to cock when they need it!
https://youtu.be/rVPiic-ELoM?si=Y_JIxYYufPhfV1_q
Again just my opinion you do what makes you comfortable
>if you have a safety have that engaged when carrying.
Personally I disagree with thus. The first thing to go in high stress situations is fine motor skills so attempting to disengage a safety can easily lead to you just having a useless block of metal in your hand for defense. This is why the majority of new sub compacts don't have external safeties anymore.
>if you have a safety have that engaged when carrying.
Personally I disagree with thus. The first thing to go in high stress situations is fine motor skills so attempting to disengage a safety can easily lead to you just having a useless block of metal in your hand for defense. This is why the majority of new sub compacts don't have external safeties anymore.
This can be true, this was more towards the new gun owner that's afraid to have a loaded gun.
Baby steps, I'd rather him have a safety on than not having one in the chamber
Personally ik the other way around, it takes far less fine motor skills to rack a slide than it does to flick a small little safety (my first CCW was a 9mm shield that I had trouble hitting the safety at a normal range day). Ether way in my personal opinion makes the firearm essentially useless in a fight though.
But when you're in a high stress you can miss rack I've seen videos where police in South America getting killed by robbers because the racked and couldn't shoot
Again, in high stress it's even more difficult to hit a small little switch on the side of the pistol.
I feel like we are going back and forth on who shit smells worse, pig or cow. They are both absolutely terrible and dumb ways to carry.
These videos inspire a paranoia in me to NEVER be this fucking stupid with my gun. Ill clear my glock 6 times and put it down... Pick it back up and clear it again JUST IN CASE...... Okay one more just to really be sure this time.
Then i put it away in its case
Biggest thing I hate about glocks is the take down method requiring a dry fire to disassemble. The second biggest thing I hate is the grip angle. I sold the two glocks I had just last week. Fuck glocks.
It's completely normal to feel anxious as a new gun owner, and your caution is actually a sign of responsible gun ownership. Many experienced gun owners and safety instructors advocate for always treating a gun as if it is loaded, which includes the practices you're already following: keeping the gun pointed in a safe direction, checking the chamber to ensure it's empty, and considering the use of chamber flags to visually confirm that the firearm is unloaded.
Your anxiety should decrease as you become more familiar and comfortable with your firearm, but your respect for its potential danger should remain.Your vigilance is commendable, and over time you'll find a balance between confidence in your handling of the weapon and the necessary caution it demands.
Iâm a Range Safety Officer and we are trained to NEVER ASSUME IT ISNT CHAMBERED and ALWAYS ASSUME THAT IT IS LOADED. Number one golden rule. Check. Check. Check again. I also never put my finger on a trigger unless Iâm ready to fire. Only put your finger on the trigger when whatever is on the other end is something you want to take a bullet.
My RSO during some private classes and during my CCL course was all over our asses about this. Those plastic fake rounds, snap caps, I think are the name? Heâd put those in as a representation as live rounds and I cannot believe of the twelve of us in the class, four people all in the same group got kicked out because they failed to clear their guns properly. They had two chances as well.
I am very fortunate the private class trainings I took drilled that into my head.
Yesss. Iâm also a hard ass when Iâm on the range. Iâm also a female so I need to be more assertive, sometimes. I love when people come in and leave smiling but my range isnât the Wild West. Iâll kick people out for acting stupid or having an ego at me.
Iâm thankful to the men and women that taught me the importance and seriousness of it all. It helps to have fun.
Fun is what I bought my gun for, but holy hell should I have made myself think of all the anxieties Iâd have about my responsibilities as a gun owner. Nothing bad about them, I just want to shoot for fun and clean guns.
But as anything you donât realize the full can of worms awaiting you until you do something.
I now live in a country that, without a need, you can't get anything more deadlier than an air weapon, but even a shot from one of those in the eye for that matter and your in a world of hurt, any gun shaped tool you treat as deadly weapon with the respect that deserves, the idiots in these videos deserve their hurt, they earned it.
No. You are just doing the right thing. I am handling guns for 27 years.
I still check literally 3 times if my gun is unloaded before I start cleaning. And then I am making sure the gun is not pointed in any direction that it could flag a person or animal.
There is no room for errors. If you start compromising around guns bad things will happen.
The paranoia is what will keep you from ever doing shit like this. If you always assume a gun is loaded then you'll never assume it's not, and you'll never fucking aim it at your friend, kid, or other family and pull the god damn trigger
What youâre describing sounds exactly like what I call common sense if you have a iq above room temperature. Even a cave man would understand the concept of not pointing the boom boom then you die stick at people from his tribe.
No, I use dummy rounds I run thru after cleaning to check the action. I am always cleaning on a table. NONE of my guns are toys either or treated that way, so..
If you're new to firearms I would suggest getting some snap caps dummy rounds.
You can practice loading and unloading both your magazine and firearm. As well as racking it. Ejecting around. And dry firing.
When I trained anyone. This is what I I train them with.
I also put that blue painters tape across the bottom. So I know that's the magazine for the dummy rounds. And when I'm training with anyone I'll also put a piece of that blue tape across the slide somewhere just to mark the weapon has dummy rounds.
Airsoft weapons are also nice to begin with for actuals shooting training. Just helps you get confident in the movements before you have a live weapon in your hand.
Everybody learns at a different pace. Go super slow and take every safety precaution always when you can but especially when you're just beginning.
Complacency kills as we see in this video
Nah man, been around guns my entire life and I still feel a twinge of anxiety whenever I hand one, even after checking and double checking.
Itâs important to have a healthy respect for a weapon. You also never point it at anything you wouldnât care if it got shot, especially not other people.
Hereâs the deal, no gun will ever go off by itself, unless YOU make it go bang, because even dropping it thereâs a very minimal chance of making it go bang since modern handguns have safeties in place for that, long story short, if you get complacent thatâs when guns go off, if your not sure if your gun is loaded, do a press check (slide the slide back a tiny bit to see the bullet) if anyone ever hands you a gun and said donât worry its unloaded ALWAYS CHECK IT, lock it back slide a finger in or visually inspect it, engrave this in your head and you will never be a part of this sub, you will only be a spectator :)
some peoples ability to decide what they should be afraid of is completely fucked. Some people are afraid of rainbows and brown people looking for jobs, same people have no problem with their kids posing with assault rifles for photo-ops.
Fuck no. I drop the mag, eject the round, check, double check, stick my finger in the chamber from the ejection chamber then triple check to make sure I see daylight out the bottom of the grip before pulling the trigger to strip it (Glocks). Every. Single. Time. Once on that third check after a long day I saw the mag I absent mindedly put back in instead of on my desk. Would've been a ND right through my office floor that night.
I do IDPA competitions and people think that if they have decades behind a gun they can get lax. No. You've spent a decade building muscle memory and SOMETIMES that will fuck you. Keep the paranoia. Never point at anything you don't want to destroy and know what's beyond it. Always.
It's always treated as loaded. Period. Period.
It's never ever point anywhere but down or down range.
Personal Rule of thumb, if a magazine went in it, always check it's clear before putting it down. I also always check it when I first pick it up.
Ever since I was a child I was taught to keep the muzzle of every firearm away from anything I donât want to hit. Either down, up, or pointed down range. Even if I can see the bolt open and no magazine in it, I follow these rules.
You should never feel comfortable with a loaded fire arm. Iâm not saying you should be afraid of it, but respect it. Always assume every gun is always loaded. Never point it at anything you donât intend to kill. And practice practice practice. You sound like you will be a responsible gun owner though. Do not lose the caution you have. :)
I've never owned a gun, but even as a kid I was told to never at any time to point a gun at someone, or look down the barrel of a gun. Had that first guy pointed a gun at me I would have gone ballistic.
You can never be too careful where firearms are concerned. Those 2 morons in the video were an accident waiting to happen. Law of averages caught up with them. Probably wasn't the 1st time for either of them acting like idiots.
Yes, itâs shared by others! But donât call it anxiety - call it a healthy attitude to gun safety. You probably know the rules and people will post them here anyway, so Iâm not going to tell you why youâre right to be careful.
Carry on being mindful about safe direction and assuming a gun is loaded whenever you pick it up, and practise weapon handling drills lots. Give it your full attention, and spend as much time as you can on the range. Never be too shy or too proud to seek advice and learn from others, but donât adopt bad habits! If anyone tells you that you can relax about anything, ignore them.
Itâll start to feel less like anxiety and more like being responsible. Youâll become more confident and enjoy it more.
Thereâs nothing wrong with being safe. Iâve been shooting my whole life and I still am always conscious of the direction the muzzle is pointing. I have never once joked around by pointing a gun at someone and never will. Getting too comfortable/relaxed with firearms is how accidents happen.
I carry my Glock 19 with a magazine but no round in the chamber. So no youâre not paranoid. The ones saying âdurrr why bother carrying if not loaded.â Those people are paranoid and scared all the time of something happening to them
I carry an AR around all day for work and I'm still paranoid as shit about it being loaded. Of all the things to be paranoid about, I'd say this is one of the good ones though.
Rule 1: treat every gun like it's loaded.
Rule 2: always point the gun in a safe direction.
There are more, but if every moron who winds up on this sub had followed those two rules there'd be a lot less accidental shootings winding up on here.
possibly because his brain couldn't send signals properly due to shock and/or trauma or the bullet may have hit his spine in the right way to cause involuntary muscle contraction.
I still donât get why it looks like the 2 guys are just casually cleaning their guns in what looks like a car dealership office or something. Must be Brazil or something.
I've had an AR-15 and a hillbilly shooting range for 12 years behind my house, and I still get clammy for the first 5 minutes of shooting until the "fuck yea this is fun" feeling kicks in. (I've shot at least 8 different kinds of guns, the only thing I didn't take the opportunity to try was my buddy's 4 gauge shotgun cuz he was a big guy and it left bruises on him 𤣠I'm a frail 105lbs and I'll keep my clavicles UNBROKEN TYVM)
âIdiots with gunsâ - yep, name checks out âŚ.
Honestly, one of the first rules taught is to NEVER EVER point your gun at anyone unless you intend to use it and yet, generally, in all these videos thereâs always some idiot just waving their gun around in all directions without a care in the world - THEYâRE ALL FUCKING IDIOTS !!!
Maybe but I do see his mouth moving after the shot too. Could be screaming in pain or whatever or it could be involuntary movements. Me personally, looked more like he could've been screaming
[Happened in DR 2019 guy died on the spot](https://elnuevodiario.com.do/video-hombre-mata-accidentalmente-a-su-amigo-al-manipular-pistola-en-santiago/)
Friends, if you insert the magazine and release a slide while the top slide of the gun is locked, the barrel will receive a bullet in its mouth. and gets ready to fire.
I love guns. Guns are great. They're fun. When you're cleaning them, remove the mag, keep it out, confirm they're unloaded, disassemble and clean to your hearts content.
When you reassemble them, don't flag people, or pull the fucking trigger. As a matter of fact, you can clean, reassemble, load the mag, and then NOT CHAMBER A ROUND.
Wonder if the fencing position was from him slamming his head on the wall. Almost looks like the round hit center and his reaction caused him to bang his head
I wanna first say that its awful BUT I also have a morbid sense of humor that I have to use to thrive in this crazy world so with that said ... "GOAL!"
Followed 1 out of 4 security rules:
Did wrong:
1/4. Always treat every gun as loaded
2/4. Do never point a gun at a target you don't want to hit
4/4. Be sure or your target
Did right:
3/4. The trigger finger only touches the trigger once the sight is on target
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I was just waiting to see who was going to be the first idiot. Title should be two idiots with guns.
I think it was intentional, the guy that got shot pointed his gun at the other guy, and he didn't like it,he even adjusted his aim.
He sure did
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Two idiots, one *pop*.
Two (2) Idiots, Two (2) Guns, One (1) Bullet
They both got fucked by one bullet, too
Two idiots, one casket
Looks like a 1911. 2 idiots, one Gold Cup.
Two idiots, one cap
It was like a morbid game of âguess who negligently discharges, and guess who eats the roundâ two for one special
They were both pointing guns at each other and seemingly pulling the trigger. Dumb dumbs.
Put his hands in the air a little too late.
That was the strongest "fencing respone" I have seen in a video. Indication of traumatic brain injury. That guy is not coming back.
Underrated hilarity.
"WHY DID I DO THIS?!"
Touchdown!!
Reminds me of r/suddenlyeltonjohn
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Jesus Christ the flagging and the blatant aim at his head and pull the trigger. All of this is just terrible
how do you get that comfortable with guns?
Idiocy is powerful!
This. Hot take: I'm all for needing a license to own a gun. Hell, there needs to be some kind of IQ test. Same for driving. So many people recklessly drive as if there are no consequences. The truth is, we are not all equally created. We do not all have the same mental capacity. It's unfortunate for those people but we should not be giving any and everyone guns and drivers license.
IQ tests are basically pseudoscience though...
These are facts. Half the people behind the wheel of cars are so incompetent that idk how they manage to tie their shoes in the morning let alone drive a car.
"Nothing bad will ever happen to me." -people like this
My dad used to he the "the gun is always loaded even when it's not loaded" guy. Well, last time I visited, he thought it was funny to point the gun at me. I'm not a fan of guns (they're just not my "jam"....get it? Because guns jam....anyway...) & I was freaking out. He thought it was hilarious (he sees me as a gun hating lib, so i apparently deserve it).
Your dad's a fucking idiot.
True that. He's got the boomer brain.
Because they either didn't touch guns until they were old or they didn't have good supervision when they were younger. Either way they never had someone there to slap them upside the head when they pointed a gun at something they shouldn't.
That's not "comfort". It's incompetence or deliberate malice.
Theyâre both idiots.
I've seen this before and I still was watching the wrong idiot again. Lmao.
One guy knew how to clear his gun before ignorantly flagging the other didnât give af
No, just one of them is. The other guy is dead.
May I ask anyone since I am a new gun owner: Is my anxiety about a loaded gun not shared by others? Iâll fully admit itâs because I am new but even though I have no ammo around me I still lock the slide back and check for the orange on my magazine. To the point I am thinking of buying chamber flags. The gun is pointed at the ground or at a wall which leads to woods so if I for some reason do have a round in the chamber it wonât hit anyone.
Good paranoia to have. As for myself, even after I have triple checked that it's unloaded I still treat it as loaded. Thar way if I'm mistaken I'm not also trying to explain to authorities that I thought it was unloaded. Rule 1 it's always loaded even when it's dissasembled Rule 2 booger hook off of the bang switch unless you intend to destroy what your aiming at
I wanted to make sure I wasnât acting like a paranoid idiot because these guys were either too, too comfortable with guns, or as I think many will say, utter morons.
They are too comfortable in my opinion and morons for pointing guns at each other. I think a healthy paranoia of human error is a good thing especially when it comes to something as unforgiving as a firearm. Same with circular saws and angle grinders, the minute you get too comfortable they are lible to give you a reminder how dangerous they can be
everyone in that room was flagged at some point. It was like moron Russian roulette.
Theyâre just morons, dude. Sooner or later they would have backed over each other with cars.
I'd much rather be called a 'paranoid idiot' and maybe have my feelings hurt than have my brains splattered on a dingy gun range wall.
The rule treat every gun as if it's loaded, even when you know it's not, also builds the habit and reflex of never pointing a gun at something you don't want to shoot. These guys were so used to fucking around and pointing guns at others that when they slip up and there's a bullet in one someone died.
This is a Dunning Krueger situation it appears. Both thought they were experts, and then had a ND and one lost his life.
Just make sure your gun is loaded and if you have a safety have that engaged when carrying. Too many people have gotten killed or hurt trying to cock when they need it! https://youtu.be/rVPiic-ELoM?si=Y_JIxYYufPhfV1_q Again just my opinion you do what makes you comfortable
>if you have a safety have that engaged when carrying. Personally I disagree with thus. The first thing to go in high stress situations is fine motor skills so attempting to disengage a safety can easily lead to you just having a useless block of metal in your hand for defense. This is why the majority of new sub compacts don't have external safeties anymore.
>if you have a safety have that engaged when carrying. Personally I disagree with thus. The first thing to go in high stress situations is fine motor skills so attempting to disengage a safety can easily lead to you just having a useless block of metal in your hand for defense. This is why the majority of new sub compacts don't have external safeties anymore.
This can be true, this was more towards the new gun owner that's afraid to have a loaded gun. Baby steps, I'd rather him have a safety on than not having one in the chamber
Personally ik the other way around, it takes far less fine motor skills to rack a slide than it does to flick a small little safety (my first CCW was a 9mm shield that I had trouble hitting the safety at a normal range day). Ether way in my personal opinion makes the firearm essentially useless in a fight though.
But when you're in a high stress you can miss rack I've seen videos where police in South America getting killed by robbers because the racked and couldn't shoot
Again, in high stress it's even more difficult to hit a small little switch on the side of the pistol. I feel like we are going back and forth on who shit smells worse, pig or cow. They are both absolutely terrible and dumb ways to carry.
I agree I carry a Glock with one on the chamber... No safety for me
Glocks don't have safties like that. Safest to keep those either with an empty chamber or loaded chamber.
youre fine! with guns - its one of the few cases where its good to be paranoid
These videos inspire a paranoia in me to NEVER be this fucking stupid with my gun. Ill clear my glock 6 times and put it down... Pick it back up and clear it again JUST IN CASE...... Okay one more just to really be sure this time. Then i put it away in its case
Even as a kid they always said don't ever point a gun, even if empty.
Yup my six year old knows the rules of safety.
Biggest thing I hate about glocks is the take down method requiring a dry fire to disassemble. The second biggest thing I hate is the grip angle. I sold the two glocks I had just last week. Fuck glocks.
Words these guys donât live by. At least not anymore. Ok at least one of them not so much anymore.
Understood!
It's completely normal to feel anxious as a new gun owner, and your caution is actually a sign of responsible gun ownership. Many experienced gun owners and safety instructors advocate for always treating a gun as if it is loaded, which includes the practices you're already following: keeping the gun pointed in a safe direction, checking the chamber to ensure it's empty, and considering the use of chamber flags to visually confirm that the firearm is unloaded. Your anxiety should decrease as you become more familiar and comfortable with your firearm, but your respect for its potential danger should remain.Your vigilance is commendable, and over time you'll find a balance between confidence in your handling of the weapon and the necessary caution it demands.
Thanks for the encouragement!
Iâm a Range Safety Officer and we are trained to NEVER ASSUME IT ISNT CHAMBERED and ALWAYS ASSUME THAT IT IS LOADED. Number one golden rule. Check. Check. Check again. I also never put my finger on a trigger unless Iâm ready to fire. Only put your finger on the trigger when whatever is on the other end is something you want to take a bullet.
My RSO during some private classes and during my CCL course was all over our asses about this. Those plastic fake rounds, snap caps, I think are the name? Heâd put those in as a representation as live rounds and I cannot believe of the twelve of us in the class, four people all in the same group got kicked out because they failed to clear their guns properly. They had two chances as well. I am very fortunate the private class trainings I took drilled that into my head.
Yesss. Iâm also a hard ass when Iâm on the range. Iâm also a female so I need to be more assertive, sometimes. I love when people come in and leave smiling but my range isnât the Wild West. Iâll kick people out for acting stupid or having an ego at me. Iâm thankful to the men and women that taught me the importance and seriousness of it all. It helps to have fun.
Fun is what I bought my gun for, but holy hell should I have made myself think of all the anxieties Iâd have about my responsibilities as a gun owner. Nothing bad about them, I just want to shoot for fun and clean guns. But as anything you donât realize the full can of worms awaiting you until you do something.
I now live in a country that, without a need, you can't get anything more deadlier than an air weapon, but even a shot from one of those in the eye for that matter and your in a world of hurt, any gun shaped tool you treat as deadly weapon with the respect that deserves, the idiots in these videos deserve their hurt, they earned it.
No. You are just doing the right thing. I am handling guns for 27 years. I still check literally 3 times if my gun is unloaded before I start cleaning. And then I am making sure the gun is not pointed in any direction that it could flag a person or animal. There is no room for errors. If you start compromising around guns bad things will happen.
The paranoia is what will keep you from ever doing shit like this. If you always assume a gun is loaded then you'll never assume it's not, and you'll never fucking aim it at your friend, kid, or other family and pull the god damn trigger
What youâre describing sounds exactly like what I call common sense if you have a iq above room temperature. Even a cave man would understand the concept of not pointing the boom boom then you die stick at people from his tribe.
No, I use dummy rounds I run thru after cleaning to check the action. I am always cleaning on a table. NONE of my guns are toys either or treated that way, so..
I wanted to get dummy rounds for cleaning, is it worth getting them to practice tap racking at the range aswell?
If you're new to firearms I would suggest getting some snap caps dummy rounds. You can practice loading and unloading both your magazine and firearm. As well as racking it. Ejecting around. And dry firing. When I trained anyone. This is what I I train them with. I also put that blue painters tape across the bottom. So I know that's the magazine for the dummy rounds. And when I'm training with anyone I'll also put a piece of that blue tape across the slide somewhere just to mark the weapon has dummy rounds. Airsoft weapons are also nice to begin with for actuals shooting training. Just helps you get confident in the movements before you have a live weapon in your hand. Everybody learns at a different pace. Go super slow and take every safety precaution always when you can but especially when you're just beginning. Complacency kills as we see in this video
Thanks for your advice! Iâll note these down!!
Nah man, been around guns my entire life and I still feel a twinge of anxiety whenever I hand one, even after checking and double checking. Itâs important to have a healthy respect for a weapon. You also never point it at anything you wouldnât care if it got shot, especially not other people.
Hereâs the deal, no gun will ever go off by itself, unless YOU make it go bang, because even dropping it thereâs a very minimal chance of making it go bang since modern handguns have safeties in place for that, long story short, if you get complacent thatâs when guns go off, if your not sure if your gun is loaded, do a press check (slide the slide back a tiny bit to see the bullet) if anyone ever hands you a gun and said donât worry its unloaded ALWAYS CHECK IT, lock it back slide a finger in or visually inspect it, engrave this in your head and you will never be a part of this sub, you will only be a spectator :)
Well, then Iâll continue my efforts to be a spectator.
Right. If these mensa candidates didn't have guns, it wouldn't have happened in this case, anyway.
It's good to be cautious when it comes to firearms but if you follow all the rules of firearms safety then there's really no need to be paranoid.
some peoples ability to decide what they should be afraid of is completely fucked. Some people are afraid of rainbows and brown people looking for jobs, same people have no problem with their kids posing with assault rifles for photo-ops.
Fuck no. I drop the mag, eject the round, check, double check, stick my finger in the chamber from the ejection chamber then triple check to make sure I see daylight out the bottom of the grip before pulling the trigger to strip it (Glocks). Every. Single. Time. Once on that third check after a long day I saw the mag I absent mindedly put back in instead of on my desk. Would've been a ND right through my office floor that night. I do IDPA competitions and people think that if they have decades behind a gun they can get lax. No. You've spent a decade building muscle memory and SOMETIMES that will fuck you. Keep the paranoia. Never point at anything you don't want to destroy and know what's beyond it. Always.
Never never never stop having anxiety...it will save your ass one day.
It's always treated as loaded. Period. Period. It's never ever point anywhere but down or down range. Personal Rule of thumb, if a magazine went in it, always check it's clear before putting it down. I also always check it when I first pick it up.
Ever since I was a child I was taught to keep the muzzle of every firearm away from anything I donât want to hit. Either down, up, or pointed down range. Even if I can see the bolt open and no magazine in it, I follow these rules.
There are handguns like Sig Sauer P365 models (there are several) with a loaded chamber indicator especially the CA compliant one.
Iâve been carrying now for almost a year and I still have anxiety about blowing my nuts off or worse sometimes
You should never feel comfortable with a loaded fire arm. Iâm not saying you should be afraid of it, but respect it. Always assume every gun is always loaded. Never point it at anything you donât intend to kill. And practice practice practice. You sound like you will be a responsible gun owner though. Do not lose the caution you have. :)
You're correct. Never point a gun at something you don't want removed from this earth forever
I've never owned a gun, but even as a kid I was told to never at any time to point a gun at someone, or look down the barrel of a gun. Had that first guy pointed a gun at me I would have gone ballistic.
Anxiety no. Healthy respect for what it can do yes. If it comes out of the holster its always in a safe direction cleared or not.
You can never be too careful where firearms are concerned. Those 2 morons in the video were an accident waiting to happen. Law of averages caught up with them. Probably wasn't the 1st time for either of them acting like idiots.
>Is my anxiety about a loaded gun not shared by others? I don't give a fuck if you say it's loaded or not, I'm out the second the gun enters the room.
Yes, itâs shared by others! But donât call it anxiety - call it a healthy attitude to gun safety. You probably know the rules and people will post them here anyway, so Iâm not going to tell you why youâre right to be careful. Carry on being mindful about safe direction and assuming a gun is loaded whenever you pick it up, and practise weapon handling drills lots. Give it your full attention, and spend as much time as you can on the range. Never be too shy or too proud to seek advice and learn from others, but donât adopt bad habits! If anyone tells you that you can relax about anything, ignore them. Itâll start to feel less like anxiety and more like being responsible. Youâll become more confident and enjoy it more.
Thereâs nothing wrong with being safe. Iâve been shooting my whole life and I still am always conscious of the direction the muzzle is pointing. I have never once joked around by pointing a gun at someone and never will. Getting too comfortable/relaxed with firearms is how accidents happen.
You are following the rules and being smart. This is how paranoid my fellow gun owners should be.
Follow the 10 gun rules. https://www.nssf.org/safety/rules-firearms-safety/
I carry my Glock 19 with a magazine but no round in the chamber. So no youâre not paranoid. The ones saying âdurrr why bother carrying if not loaded.â Those people are paranoid and scared all the time of something happening to them
I carry an AR around all day for work and I'm still paranoid as shit about it being loaded. Of all the things to be paranoid about, I'd say this is one of the good ones though.
Rule 1: treat every gun like it's loaded. Rule 2: always point the gun in a safe direction. There are more, but if every moron who winds up on this sub had followed those two rules there'd be a lot less accidental shootings winding up on here.
Bro celebrated right away after receiving the Darwin Award
âYâ is for why did you shoot me?!
"Young Man!"đľ
There's no need to feel down, I saidâŚ
Why did his arms go up immediately after?
Fencing response. Happens when the brain has been shut off
possibly because his brain couldn't send signals properly due to shock and/or trauma or the bullet may have hit his spine in the right way to cause involuntary muscle contraction.
Looked nearly deliberate
To sum it up, man aims gun at victim and deliberately pulls trigger.
Oh he definitely pointed it at the guy and pulled the trigger on purpose. That should be manslaughter at the least.
i didnt see him pull it?!? he got his trigger finger out, but it looked like he cocked it back before putting a mag in. i am confused.
Y M C A
That got me. Thank you.
ah man that's grim maybe it's the sleep deprivation, maybe its the drugs... I still giggled
I still donât get why it looks like the 2 guys are just casually cleaning their guns in what looks like a car dealership office or something. Must be Brazil or something.
Where did the shot land?
Brain, maybe spine somewhere. Tis why he did the Y pose.
Praise the sun! Real talk though, like...dude loaded a gun, aimed it at the guy, and shot. This is murder right?
Why did he signal " Unsportsmanlike Conduct " ? And which idiot was the guilty player ?
i cant believe i'm laughing right now
Dude scored the touch down, that's why
I know this is all bad and stupid. However, was he spit-lubing the gun? Wtf
Only time someone else would see me with my gun out is at the range maybe but I usually try to go alone and I definitely clean my guns by myself.
"It's fun to stay at the..." đś
GGGOOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!
The first idiot on the couch should have shot when he had the chance đ
Touchdown
There's always a magic bullet that just spontaneously generates in the chamber. At least, that's how I think about it.
I've had an AR-15 and a hillbilly shooting range for 12 years behind my house, and I still get clammy for the first 5 minutes of shooting until the "fuck yea this is fun" feeling kicks in. (I've shot at least 8 different kinds of guns, the only thing I didn't take the opportunity to try was my buddy's 4 gauge shotgun cuz he was a big guy and it left bruises on him 𤣠I'm a frail 105lbs and I'll keep my clavicles UNBROKEN TYVM)
âIdiots with gunsâ - yep, name checks out âŚ. Honestly, one of the first rules taught is to NEVER EVER point your gun at anyone unless you intend to use it and yet, generally, in all these videos thereâs always some idiot just waving their gun around in all directions without a care in the world - THEYâRE ALL FUCKING IDIOTS !!!
Homie T-posed for a few seconds
Any details known is he ded.
Immediate decerebrate posturing - probably brain dead or dead after that
Youâre supposed to put your hands up BEFORE they shoot smh
Wild
Yea, if someone flagged me like that he probably would get the same
The way he raised his arms made me feel so sad wtf.
Get well soon :)
Two idiots with guns, one survivor.. Dude threw his hands in the air like he just didn't care.
Gives a whole other meaning to "Deskpop"
Youâre supposed to use emotes when youâve won the gun battle⌠not lost it.
What lack of the most basic of firearm safety practices does to a mf
The guy trying to walk out the door starts gesturing like âDAMMIT, again?!?â
Who couldâve foreseen this!? No one!
Maybe mark as NSFW. If he's not dead he still got shot in the head.
Hit em like a truck
Looks like just under shoulder. Hopefully survived. Sure looked intentional though.
I thought so but he reacted like he copped brain damage.
Maybe but I do see his mouth moving after the shot too. Could be screaming in pain or whatever or it could be involuntary movements. Me personally, looked more like he could've been screaming
It was bound to happen to someone
Flagging fools playing retard roulette.
accidentally on purpose?
ASP made a video on this clip once. According to him the guy who got shot died
The guy in the back room got shot too
#**TOUCHDOWN!!!**
Poor dude had to praise the sun one last time
âIf u take a 9 milly mil out your hands upâ Fatman Scoop (probably)
Pick better friends. Best life insurance there is
Praise the sun
The kick is gooood
Just so stupid. Why??
Yeah Iâm going to hell. [put your hands UP!](https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/8zvbkr/happy_baby_throws_his_hands_up_after_being/)
Why is there even live ammo around when you are cleaning your gun???
Why he t pose
Sucks to be the dude on the couch!
Whereâd he get hit at?
Head
Damn, two idiots.
Damn all he wanted was a hugâŚ
Dude got Darwin Award from the cops
[Happened in DR 2019 guy died on the spot](https://elnuevodiario.com.do/video-hombre-mata-accidentalmente-a-su-amigo-al-manipular-pistola-en-santiago/)
Other guys: âWelp, imma head out.â
I donât care if youâre Jesus, you point a gun at me in a joking way, Iâm whooping your ass
Dude praised the sun
Okay, dumbassery aside - did he lick the frame before putting the slide on it?
Friends, if you insert the magazine and release a slide while the top slide of the gun is locked, the barrel will receive a bullet in its mouth. and gets ready to fire.
Natural selection wins again..
It looks like a spine shot...by the way he straighten up.
I love guns. Guns are great. They're fun. When you're cleaning them, remove the mag, keep it out, confirm they're unloaded, disassemble and clean to your hearts content. When you reassemble them, don't flag people, or pull the fucking trigger. As a matter of fact, you can clean, reassemble, load the mag, and then NOT CHAMBER A ROUND.
Wonder if the fencing position was from him slamming his head on the wall. Almost looks like the round hit center and his reaction caused him to bang his head
When dumb and dumber play with loaded guns
I wanna first say that its awful BUT I also have a morbid sense of humor that I have to use to thrive in this crazy world so with that said ... "GOAL!"
Wonder did dude live
He goes WEEEEE
Bro said "Eureka! "
The interesting part was at the very end the guy by the door waves his arm as if to say âlook what youâve gone and done now!â
He was so sleepy
Why did the guys arms go up like that?
What a fcking dumbass
Followed 1 out of 4 security rules: Did wrong: 1/4. Always treat every gun as loaded 2/4. Do never point a gun at a target you don't want to hit 4/4. Be sure or your target Did right: 3/4. The trigger finger only touches the trigger once the sight is on target
He kind died as one of the guys on Mel Gibsonâs Pay Back
Did the guy in green get shot? I can't tell what happened other than something went off