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Thread: Negligent Discharge
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December 22nd, 2018, 09:53 AM #11
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December 22nd, 2018, 11:56 AM #12Grand Member
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Re: Negligent Discharge
Always remove the source of ammunition that's the first step in solving that problem. I never fiddle fart with any guns at any time, range or no range with the source of ammunition intact in the gun.
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December 22nd, 2018, 12:14 PM #13Grand Member
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Re: Negligent Discharge
Not to be argumentative, but I have found the opposite of this to be correct, for me. I load all my firearms. It makes it easier to "treat all firearms as if they are loaded" when I know, and expect, that they are. This way I do not have to act as if they are loaded, when subconsciously, I know that they should not be. I know that they are loaded, and I treat them accordingly.
If I were to only load certain firearms, I would be creating different categories of firearms which, subconsciously, would not be given the same respect that all firearms deserve. I don't like the idea of assuming some firearms are unloaded, because if you fuck up one time and one isn't, well...
A firearm is only unloaded if I personally unload it and verify it as such, as the rule intends. This is just something to think about, to each his own.
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December 22nd, 2018, 12:15 PM #14Grand Member
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Re: Negligent Discharge
There are only two kinds of people who have ND's, those that have and those that will. We all have brain fades from time to time. No harm, no foul and learn from your mistake.
I state this as someone who also experienced an ND a long time ago before I had any formal training beyond the PA hunter safety course.
Had recently received my LTC (before PA was "shall issue") and upon returning home from an afternoon of shooting, put the S&W 17 back in the safe loaded. It was one of the first times I was able to carry concealed with the LTC and carried it home in its holster loaded. Later on that evening wanted to do some dry fire practice and didn't perform a status check before pressing the trigger. Killed one of my stereo speakers. Given that it's not too difficult to see cartridges in a revolver chamber vs. an auto-loader, I really must have had my head up my butt that evening.
You and I are two of those people "who have", there will be others "who will".
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December 22nd, 2018, 12:18 PM #15
Re: Negligent Discharge
Check out the "Safe direction" academy ballistic pad by Ravelin Group. I have a couple. Also great to take when traveling ie hotel where there is no safe direction or apt.
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December 22nd, 2018, 12:23 PM #16
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I would have reported that a neighbor did it.
Gender confusion is a mental illness
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December 22nd, 2018, 12:27 PM #17
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What hole? Oh, that one. I'm gonna run an AV cable there. Soon as I find one that gauge.
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December 22nd, 2018, 12:55 PM #18
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Here's how to fix the wall. Every single step is necessary to ensure that your wife will NEVER find that spot again, even with a microscope!
(1) Spackle the hole, sand with fine sandpaper when dry.
(2) Repeat (1) as necessary until perfectly flush, as the spackle may shrink/sink when it dries.
(3) With an X-Acto knife, cut and peel away a 1"-square sample of the wall paint from behind the couch.
(4) Spackle/sand the paint sampling location.
(5) Take the paint sample to Home Depot for color matching with their analyzer.
(6) Buy a gallon, not a quart, of semi-gloss interior paint.
(7) Paint the walls with a roller, allow to dry.
(8) Repeat (7) in the area of the bullet hole util the texture there matches the rest of the wall.
This is your penance.
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December 22nd, 2018, 01:42 PM #19
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Hmmmmmm you appear to be well versed with this situation.
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December 22nd, 2018, 01:45 PM #20
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I am glad that you are OK.
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