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  • The Four Rules of Gun Safety

    The Four Rules of Gun Safety

    Over the past two months, I’ve worked with several new shooters and have gone over the four rules of gun safety – over and over and over again. I ended up seeing one couple at the range recently and witnessed safety infractions happening and had to speak up and say something. That was not at all what I taught them.

    If you are new to shooting or maybe just never received the proper training read the following – and not just practice it but remember…and learn it.

    GUN SAFETY RULE #1:

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    Every gun should be treated like its loaded. Complacency and carelessness has cost far too many lives and it’s totally preventable. Positive a gun is empty? Treat it likes it’s not.

     

    GUN SAFETY RULE #2:

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    Handling a firearm comes with an awesome responsibility. Do not EVER point a firearm at something you are not willing to destroy – aka kill. This should be common sense but far too often it’s not. See someone break this rule accidently? Let them know. It may be your life you end up saving.

    A question that often comes up is – “Well, where should I point the gun?” This depends on where you are and where everyone else is. Bottomline is the gun should never point at any person. Many shooting ranges have rules stating all firearms must point down range at all times. When carrying firearms – both pistols and long guns – I prefer to keep barrels pointing downward.

     

    GUN SAFETY RULE #3:

    Accidental discharges are more often than not caused by a finger pulling a trigger when the shooter was NOT ready to shoot. This is a simple fix by keeping your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.

     

    GUN SAFETY RULE #4:

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    Never shoot at anything you have not absolutely identified AND know what is behind it.  Targets are often missed and you are accountable for every round exiting your gun. Bullets can travel great distances so you must know exactly where every shot will end up.

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    As a gun owner, you are responsible for handling all firearms in a safe manner. As a responsible advocate for the 2nd Amendment, I would go further to say you are also responsible for watching out for others to prevent accidents and help educate.

    Be safe out there!

    Rourke

  • DO NOT dry fire practice…..EVER!!!

    DO NOT dry fire practice…..EVER!!!

     

    This may come as a surprise that someone would actually suggest NOT to dry fire practice. After all it is a widely used technique to improve shooting skills and save money. I was not always of the belief that dry firing was a safety issue. Panhandle Rancher convinced me otherwise. While I’m not going to get into the level of detail he provided me as to the explanation against dry firing – I’ll mention a couple things:

    1. A kid is found dead left in car while their parents work all day,
    2. Unintended discharges

    Every year you hear about a father who normally doesn’t take their kid to day care forgetting to drop them off. They drive to work as normal and the kid bakes in the sun all day while dad is inside working. So sad.

    Every year there are many unintended shots fired in living rooms, ranges, and many other places. Every single time a finger is placed on the trigger – with a found in the chamber.

    Here’s the deal – we humans are creatures of habit. When you pick up a firearm in the house and dry fire practice you’re pulling the trigger over and over again. A habit is being developed that pulling the trigger without the gun going off is OK – and normal. It is just a matter of time before it goes BANG – unintentionally. If you had a rule that you NEVER pull the trigger unless aiming at a target or conducting a live fire exercise the complacency that dry fire practice developed will be much less.

    That father drives to work day after day, week after week – never having to drop the child off at the day care. It’s a habit that is embedded in him. One day his routine is disrupted and the wife places junior in the back seat. He pulls out and soon thereafter he is back in his routine. The thought of his son in the backseat never enters his mind.

    We can say it would never happen to us. We can say that 10,000 dry fire trigger pulls year after year will not increase the chance of an unintentional discharge. We can say that with all those dry fire shots pulling out a concealed carry gun – with a round in the chamber – that there is no possibility that habit will come into play and the trigger pulled at some point. I will say that is just not logical.

    I say keep your finger off the trigger until aiming at something you are willing to destroy.

    Stay safe my friends.

    Rourke

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