This minor thing is starting to work my nerves. Gun safety.

[Route 45]

I've posed for lots of gun pics, but I was in the military. It wasn't specifically about taking gun pics, it was about buddies, but of course we'd usually have guns. I should go find them pics, and see where our fingers were.

 

[rosejm]

For ****s sake. Of all the things to argue about...

Did the 9/40/45 thread(s) all get locked?
No more Wuhan Flu / Masks?
Everyone has all the ammo & reloading supplies they could ever want from their stimulus checks?

 

[KittySlayer]

If action was imminent, your finger would be on the trigger. If action isn't imminent, why do we even need to see your hand on the gun? Take a pretty picture of it laying on a table. Really don't need to see your hand to admire the gun.

Well when perusing the Woman with Guns IV thread on INGO I like to fantasize that action is imminent, it enhances my admiration... of the gun.

 

[chezuki]

Man, I've seen some pretty ignorant things on INGO over the years, but dang....

/thread

 

[Clay Pigeon]

I just ate some zucchini bread from the garden. How does she grow bread?

Wrong PH silly...

 

[Clay Pigeon]

[QUOTE=Sigblaster;8404382]It seems everyone is SO concerned with demonstrating their "Gun Safety Awareness" that they must contort their hands into the same unnatural trendster grip that everyone else uses to "Safety Signal".

You know what I mean. That photo op with the trigger finger stuck straight out along the side of a gun above the trigger. It sometimes appears that they are striving to angle that finger so high above the trigger, that they risk joint dislocation and tearing of tendons or ligaments or whatnot.

Look, if you have time to smile and pose with your weapon, chances are that the apocalypse is not immediately upon you. You don't need to keep your finger THAT ready. Go ahead and drop that finger below the trigger guard on your AR, on the pistol grip of the weapon where it normally hangs out when you're actually patrolling. If your handgun is out of its holster, you can also keep your finger below the trigger guard for your facebook pics. If action was imminent, your finger would be on the trigger. If action isn't imminent, why do we even need to see your hand on the gun? Take a pretty picture of it laying on a table. Really don't need to see your hand to admire the gun. [/QUOTE]

IFIFY...

 

[Tactically Fat]

It seems everyone is SO concerned with demonstrating their "Gun Safety Awareness" that they must contort their hands into the same unnatural trendster grip that everyone else uses to "Safety Signal".

You know what I mean. That photo op with the trigger finger stuck straight out along the side of a gun above the trigger. It sometimes appears that they are striving to angle that finger so high above the trigger, that they risk joint dislocation and tearing of tendons or ligaments or whatnot.

Look, if you have time to smile and pose with your weapon, chances are that the apocalypse is not immediately upon you. You don't need to keep your finger THAT ready. Go ahead and drop that finger below the trigger guard on your AR, on the pistol grip of the weapon where it normally hangs out when you're actually patrolling. If your handgun is out of its holster, you can also keep your finger below the trigger guard for your facebook pics. If action was imminent, your finger would be on the trigger. If action isn't imminent, why do we even need to see your hand on the gun? Take a pretty picture of it laying on a table. Really don't need to see your hand to admire the gun.

Craig Douglas would like a word.

 

[cedartop]

Craig Douglas would like a word.

Or just about any trainer worth a dang.

 

[riverman67]

This entire conversation is hurting my head, I'm going elsewhere

 

[jagee]

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...how-hold-carbine-green-beret-mike-glover.html

 

[ditcherman]

[QUOTE=Sigblaster;8404382]It seems everyone is SO concerned with demonstrating their "Gun Safety Awareness" that they must contort their hands into the same unnatural trendster grip that everyone else uses to "Safety Signal".

You know what I mean. That photo op with the trigger finger stuck straight out along the side of a gun above the trigger. It sometimes appears that they are striving to angle that finger so high above the trigger, that they risk joint dislocation and tearing of tendons or ligaments or whatnot.

Look, if you have time to smile and pose with your weapon, chances are that the apocalypse is not immediately upon you. You don't need to keep your finger THAT ready. Go ahead and drop that finger below the trigger guard on your AR, on the pistol grip of the weapon where it normally hangs out when you're actually patrolling. If your handgun is out of its holster, you can also keep your finger below the trigger guard for your facebook pics. If action was imminent, your finger would be on the trigger. If action isn't imminent, why do we even need to see your hand on the gun? Take a pretty picture of it laying on a table. Really don't need to see your hand to admire the gun.

IFIFY...[/QUOTE]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Clay Pigeon again.

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[bwframe]

Not sure this went the way the OP thought it would?

Maybe if it would have been posted in the politics section or break room, outcome would have been different? Not sure though...

 

[ditcherman]

Man this picture sure is telling. Crazy kim dude got himself surrounded with a bunch of dolts, for sure. I mean, how much "no training" can you possibly not have to hold a gun like that?

ETA: I'm really talking about all of them, not just the candy bar guy or two. Every trigger has a finger.

 

[NHT3]

Your trigger finger may be on the trigger on a combat patrol, or laying on the pistol grip on a less-likely encounter like a recon patrol, but NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY walks around for hours sticking their finger out straight like that.

Sloppy, (inconsistent) gun handling is what gets people perforated. Startle proof register position is the accepted position for your trigger finger for a reason, reason being it's proved to be the safest way to handle a firearm.
I'm thankful your thoughts on safety and trigger finger discipline hasn't caused you a problem to this point. The best way to continue that trend is consistently keep your head in the game and stop considering safe gun handling a "minor" thing.

[FONT=&amp]NRA Life Member / [/FONT]Basic Pistol instructor[FONT=&amp] / RSO[/FONT][FONT=&amp]

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]"Under pressure, you don't rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training. That's why we train so hard" [/FONT][FONT=&amp]
[/FONT][FONT=&amp]Unnamed Navy Seal[/FONT][FONT=&amp]

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]“Ego is the reason many men do not shoot competition. They don't want to suck in public” ….Coach[/FONT]

 

[Gabriel]

Your trigger finger may be on the trigger on a combat patrol, or laying on the pistol grip on a less-likely encounter like a recon patrol, but NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY walks around for hours sticking their finger out straight like that.

Actually, we do.

While I'm bothering to reply, what's with this keeping your trigger finger below the trigger guard ****?

 

[Route 45]

Actually, we do.

While I'm bothering to reply, what's with this keeping your trigger finger below the trigger guard ****?

That's exactly what it is. ****.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

Any time I have my gun in hand I hold it with my finger straight down the gun, unless I’m shooting. Why would I ever wanna break a habit that we are trained to do for safety by changing where my finger sits? I don’t even think about it, I just naturally hold a gun that way, as 99% of us do, and it works, why start doing something different because it doesn’t “look cool”?

 

[1775usmarine]

I was in the military as well. Treat Never Keep Keep said it ever night in boot camp.

Treat every weapon as if it were loaded
Never point a weapon at anything you don't intend to shoot
Keep your weapon on safe until ready to fire.
Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until ready to fire

I guess the Marines are wrong?

 

[Clay Pigeon]

I was in the military as well. Treat Never Keep Keep said it ever night in boot camp.

Treat every weapon as if it were loaded
Never point a weapon at anything you don't intend to shoot
Keep your weapon on safe until ready to fire.
Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until ready to fire

I guess the Marines are wrong?

I don't think they were, It was instilled to me in my youth and burned in by the USMC and its still a popular thing with those silly Jarheads.
Heres mine from last year and the other one a few months ago.

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Silly Jarheads, keeping loaded weapons secure...

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[1775usmarine]

I don't think they were, It was instilled to me in my youth and burned in by the USMC and its still a popular thing with those silly Jarheads.
Heres mine from last year and the other one a few months ago.

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Silly Jarheads, keeping loaded weapons secure...

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I'll have to go through my old pics and see but 99% certain we were still doing the same then as I still do now in 1st CIV DIV.