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  • Kirk Freeman

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    How many times have you hear this stupidity? No, don't unload it in the parking lot. It's a gun, it is dangerous. Keep it slung, keep it holstered, keep it downrange and pointed at the giant slab of steel or mound of dirt.

    Customer at Tejas gun range shot in head as rifle unloaded in parking lot. Just because the weapon malfunctions does not mean it is an alarm clock. It is still a gun.

    Customer killed when rifle being worked on at gun range accidentally fires | abc13.com
     

    Kirk Freeman

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    An unfortunate incident that could have been easily prevented by an application of the four rules.

    We have all seen it in either form it manifests here:

    1. the parking lot is some sort of magical place protected by a force field. How many ranges have you walked into where they hoot like monkeys over guns in holsters and say "unload it in the parking lot"? A bunch for me.

    2. a firearm malfunction and it gets waved about like a pom-pom.

    This happened because people refuse to learn. Refuse to be disciplined. Refuse education as they have "common sense". No, you don't.
     

    GIJEW

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    The article didn't say that the rifle was being unloaded in the parking lot, it said that an employee was working on it and the customer was hit in the parking lot. Nothing astonishing about, say, a 30.06 going through a wall. Lots of things to point fingers at, but unloading in the parking doesn't seem to be the real problem. After all, can't the pavement work as an improvised backstop?

    Personally, I don't have a quarrel with keeping firearms slung or holstered before getting to the firing line but many businesses and ranges do--because of those "lowest common denominators" with guns. So what do you do then, unload your EDC at home or in the parking lot?
     

    Kirk Freeman

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    The article didn't say that the rifle was being unloaded in the parking lot, it said that an employee was working on it and the customer was hit in the parking lot. Nothing astonishing about, say, a 30.06 going through a wall.

    So, we can agree that the parking lot is not a "safe direction"?

    If only a shooting range did have a safe direction.
     

    GIJEW

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    So, we can agree that the parking lot is not a "safe direction"?

    If only a shooting range did have a safe direction.
    Like I said, "lots of things to point fingers at"--and yes, pointing a rifle you're "working on" at the parking lot is not a safe direction, which brings me back to the point that unsafe gun handling, not the location of unsafe gun handling, is the real problem.
     

    Sylvain

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    I know what to get Kurk for Christmas! :D

    Safe direction ballistic pad! Bring your safe direction with you anywhere you go, including the parking lot of your strip club or gun store.

    No safe direction in your office? Bring your own!

    7HPSafeDirectionHotPad.jpg


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    They have a rifle model as well.

    CABR_wiresupport.jpg
     

    Xrage

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    This wasn't an accident, it was negligence.
    How do you work at a gun range and you don't even know the basics of gun safety?
    Before you start to service a weapon how is checking for an empty chamber not the very first thing you do?
     
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