Thread: WTF

That is some scary shit Beavis.

It just gave me the urge to go thru all of my firearms just now to make sure they were clear.
They were. So now I am going to reward myself by firing a couple of them.




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I always ask the person handing me a firearm to open the bolt or action first, I then visually check myself. @Rushy can't say anymore, but it concerns me!

couldnt agree more guys .some are just thickas pigshit full stop.
theres no bloody excuses whatsoever fullstop. Im hot on this .
took my .223 in to get barrel threaded last week- bolt&mag travel seperate ,thank you very much and I asked the staff member if he wanted them with the rifle ,only then did i hand them over.

Generallyy I never leave a mag loaded ,but if it is(.22) ,its secured well and bloody truly clear of the rifles etc.likewise bolts.
Imof the opinion perhaps its time shop staff refused service if weapons are presented in a such a state!
may be tough but hells bells if anything went wrong in the shop MBIE would tuck into the staff without as much as a single word of contrition.

Was talking about this thread tonight while having a drink with a mate at his shop. He has been a outdoors retailer for 20 years and has had a couple similar incidents and one recently. He growled the fella out the shop for showing up with a loaded mag in the rifle.

A little off the topic , . Ive had it twice in the field now, blokes that disengage safety on a shot gun well before game has flushed . Both have been trap skeet shooters & I'm guessing they get the habit from the club ? . What is the requirement at the gun club ? Do trap guns have safeties ?

Some trap guns don,t engage safety automatically, but all modern guns have safety's, when in the trap cage you normally load when ready and release safety followed by calling pull, unless shooting flush you then just load and wait until clays appear.
With semi auto or pump although they lock open, we just put a used cartridge in the ejection port, brass end in, plastic out so it can,t close and people can see its chamber is empty.

I have never used a safety in any of the clay diciplines yet.
Not even when I was shooting an auto for a few years.

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I always use a safety, as I spent as much time shooting driven pheasant as clays

I have a friend who works in a gun shop in Arizona. They have a BIG sign on their door stating "If you are bringing a firearm in for repair or to sell it must be in a case. Any openly displayed firearms will be treated as a threat" All the staff carry pistols in the shop and he said at least a couple of times every week they have to draw on someone walking in waving a gun or drawing a pistol at the counter. He also said the worst offenders are the local cops.
His boss owned another gun shop years ago where a guy started to draw a pistol he wanted to get new sights for, the boss told him not to draw it in the store but to take it into the range area out back, clear it then case it and come back. Apparently the guy argued that it was already clear, went to pull it again and shot himself.