![]() Gun safety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about techniques for the safe handling, possession, and storage of firearms. For wider political and legal issues concerning firearms and gun safety, see Gun politics and Gun control. For the part of a firearm called a "safety" or "safety catch", see Safety (firearms). Gun safety rules and recommendations are intended to avoid accidental discharge or negligent discharge, or the consequences of firearm malfunctions. Their purpose is to eliminate or minimize the risks of unintentional death, injury or damage caused by improper possession, storage, or handling of firearms. If a sportsman true you'd be Listen carefully to me: Never, never, let your gun Pointed be at anyone. This page has been archived and commenting is disabled. MUST HEAR: Panic And Loathing From The S&P 500 Pits. Point (point) n. 1. A sharp or tapered end: the point of a knife; the point of the antenna. 2. An object having a sharp or tapered end: a stone projectile point. 3. A. Herein lie the first Damn Interesting words of our most recent writer, Richard Solensky. Aurora over Bear Lake, Alaska. If you happen to be reasonably close to one of. There were 4. 7,0. A Glock secured for transport (or storage) with a cable lock. Rules and mindset[edit]. Example of safe firearm handling. The firearm is pointed at the ground and the handler's finger is off the trigger. Gun safety training seeks to instill a certain mindset and appropriate habits by following specific rules. The mindset is that firearms are inherently dangerous and must always be stored carefully and handled with care. Handlers are taught to treat firearms with respect for their destructive capabilities, and strongly discouraged from playing or toying with firearms, a common cause of accidents. The rules of gun safety follow from this mindset. In 1. 90. 2, the English politician and game shooting enthusiast Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote some much- quoted verses on gun safety, including many salient points. His verses "A Father's Advice" begin with the following: [2][3]If a sportsman true you'd be. Listen carefully to me: Never, never, let your gun. Pointed be at anyone.. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ira L. Revees, in his 1. The A B C of Rifle, Revolver and Pistol Shooting,[4] stated the following: "The Accident- Proof Rule": "The muzzle of a firearm should never point in a direction in which, if discharged, it would do injury where injury is not meant to be done.""the companion rule of the one just given": "All firearms are at all times loaded.""The trigger should never be pulled until the identity of the thing fired at has been established beyond any doubt."Various version of the "Ten Commandments of Gun Safety" have been published. This one is from the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia: [5]Treat every gun with the respect due a loaded gun. Carry only empty guns, taken down or with the action open, into your car, camp and home. Always be sure that the barrel and action are clear of obstructions. Always carry your gun so that you can control the direction of the muzzle. Be sure of your target before you pull the trigger. Never point a gun at anything you do not want to shoot. Never leave your gun unattended unless you unload it first. Never climb a tree or a fence with a loaded gun. Never shoot at a flat, hard surface or the surface of water. Do not mix gunpowder and alcohol. Jeff Cooper, an influential figure in modern firearms training, formalized and popularized "Four Rules" of safe firearm handling. Prior lists of gun safety rules included as few as three basic safety rules or as many as ten rules including gun safety and sporting etiquette rules. In addition to Cooper, other influential teachers of gun safety include Massad Ayoob, Clint Smith, Chuck Taylor, Jim Crews, Bob Munden and Ignatius Piazza. Jeff Cooper's Four Rules: [6]All guns are always loaded. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it. The National Rifle Association provides a similar set of rules: [7]ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction. ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot. ALWAYS keep the gun unloaded until ready to use. Project Appleseed provides similar rules for their rifle marksmanship clinics: [8]Always keep the muzzle in a safe direction. Do not load until given the load command. Keep your finger off the trigger until the sights are on the target. Make sure those around you follow the safety rules. The Canadian Firearms Program uses the concept of The Four Firearm ACTS: [9]Assume every firearm is loaded. Control the muzzle direction at all times. Trigger finger off trigger and out of trigger guard. See that the firearm is unloaded. PROVE it safe. Blank ammunition, which is a primed casing filled with gunpowder, either crimped or covered with a wad, is dangerous up to 1. In the past, people have injured or killed themselves believing that blanks were not dangerous. Therefore, gun safety rules apply even to guns loaded with blanks. Treat firearms as if they are loaded[edit]. Barrel for dry firing, in order to ultimately check the unloaded state of a firearm. This rule is a matter of keeping a certain mindset. The purpose is to create safe handling habits, and to discourage reasoning along the lines of, "I know my gun is unloaded so certain unsafe practices are OK." The proposition "the gun is always loaded" means that, even though it may be known that this is not true of a particular firearm, that knowledge is never trusted or relied upon. Thus even if it somehow turned out to be incorrect, the error would not be deadly. Many firearm accidents result from the handler mistakenly believing a firearm is emptied, safetied, or otherwise disabled when in fact it is ready to be discharged. Such misunderstandings can arise from a number of sources. Faulty handling of the firearm. A handler may execute the steps of procedures such as loading, firing and emptying in the wrong order or omit steps of the procedures. Misunderstandings about a firearm's status. For instance, a handler may think the safety is on when it is not. A round of ammunition may be in the chamber or in the magazine while the handler thinks it is empty. A handler may receive a firearm and assume it is in a certain state without checking whether that assumption is true. For example, as handlers interact and pass the firearm between them, each avoids over- relying on the "show clear" of the other. Person 1 may misjudge the status; person 2 cannot assume that "it's OK because person 1 already checked it."Mechanical failures. Wear, faulty assembly, damage or faulty design of the firearm can cause it not to function as intended. For instance, a safety may have been worn down to a point where it is no longer functioning. Broken or worn parts in the trigger, sear or hammer/striker may have given the firearm a "hair trigger" (a very sensitive trigger). A dented or bent body of the firearm may cause jams or premature discharge of ammunition. Sensitivity to impact may cause a firearm to discharge if dropped or struck against another object. If a handler always treats firearms as capable of being discharged at any time, the handler is more likely to take precautions to prevent an unintentional discharge and to avoid damage or injury if one does occur.[1. Point the muzzle away from non- targets[edit]This rule is intended to minimize the damage caused by an unintended discharge. The first rule teaches that a firearm must be assumed to be ready to fire. This rule goes beyond that and says, "Since the firearm might fire, assume that it will and make sure no harm occurs when it does."A consequence of this rule is that any kind of playing or "toying" with firearms is prohibited. Playfully pointing firearms at people or other non- targets violates this rule and is possibly an extreme endangerment to life and/or property. To discourage this kind of behavior, the rule is sometimes alternately stated, "Never point a firearm at anything unless you intend to destroy it.". Two natural "safe" directions to point the muzzle are up (at the sky) and down (at the ground). Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Firing at the ground may result in a ricochet or cause hazardous fragments to be flung at people or objects. Aiming upward eliminates this risk but replaces it with the risk that the bullet may cause damage when it comes down to the ground again. A bullet fired straight up only returns at the terminal velocity of the bullet.[1. However, a bullet fired at an angle not perfectly vertical will retain its spin on the way down and can attain much more lethal speeds.[1. Several accidents have reportedly been caused by discharging firearms into the air; although the evidence in a few such cases has been disputed,[1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 4. New Year celebrations in Puerto Rico.[1. It is also possible that the muzzle will inadvertently be pointed at a non- target such as someone's head or an aircraft.[1. In cases where the firearm is being handled indoors, up and down may not be safe directions. For example, a bullet fired upward may travel through a ceiling and into an adjacent floor. In indoor areas where firearms will be handled often, a suitably safe direction should be designated. Firing ranges often designate a direction in which it is safe to point a firearm; almost universally this is downrange into a backstop which is designed to contain bullets and eliminate potential ricochets. In armories or other areas where weapons must be handled, a container filled with sand known as a "clearing barrel" or "clearing can" is often used for this purpose. Keep fingers off the trigger[edit]. Finger off the trigger and outside the trigger guard. This rule is intended to prevent an undesired discharge. Normally a firearm is discharged by pressing its trigger. A handler's finger may involuntarily move for any of several reasons: the handler is startled, a lack of full attention on body movements, physiological reasons beyond conscious control such as a spasm, stumbling or falling, or the finger being pushed by something (as when trying to holster a handgun with one's finger on the trigger). Handlers are therefore taught to minimize the harmful effects of such a motion by keeping their finger off the trigger until the muzzle is pointing at the target and the handler wishes to discharge the firearm.
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