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Pretty dumb to keep a round chambered.
My father, an NRA ~~member~~ sucker that claims gun safety first, leaves a 12g fully loaded (buckshot) with one in the chamber and safety off in a soft bag with the zipper open right under him while he sleeps. He also has Parkinsons.
You're giving these people way too much credit by presuming they do any form of critical thinking.
Wow that is very dumb and very dangerous.
You can't make this shit up lmao
Yea... that's the scariest, darkest part of it. He's also the guy standing next to you in the grocery store line proudly displaying his Glock on his hip. No idea how he carries that (i.e., chambered, hammer cocked, safety on? no clue). Imagine if something went down that actually warranted the use of the pistol while you're standing in line...
You mean its not clipped into a swivel bracket on the underside of the slats for when your new partner escapes having his brains blown out in a bathtub?!
How will we know whether he's surgical with that bitch, Jake?!
Number one rule of weapons safety, treat every weapon as if it were NERF.
So like the bullets are made of sponge?
I think they're making a joke.
Unless you are paranoid.
Even then it's dumb, but you can always load it if you think you will need it. It shouldn't be chambered all the time though. Guns are too dangerous to use like that.
Especially shotguns, most are notoriously not drop safe.
Only if your paranoia includes your dog being out to get you
Every gun owner I met is scared of everything.
I accidentally got dragged into a conversation at work with a gun owner who seemed to have it mapped out exactly how they thought a home invasion would play out. In their scenario they'd have the drop on the robbers, who'd never be expecting someone to keep a loaded gun by their bed while sleeping...
There was so much detail in there that it made me wonder if they actually wanted someone to come into their house so they could have an excuse to kill someone.
Oh, yeah. They live for this fantasy. We have an Airstream travel trailer, and there are people in that group that are absolutely certain that someone WILL try to break in sooner or later while they're camping, and they will be Ready For It.
I assume they are the same group of people that end up shooting an innocent person that had their car break down at 2 am and just wanted help, or knocked on the door to what they thought was a friend's house.
It's really disturbing how certain they are that this will happen. Too much Fox News, I assume.
Most of the ones who aren't don't reveal they are gun owners or think about it so much.
I own guns. Not because I'm scared of anything, but because I inherited one, and my mom has a farm and shooting clay pigeons is fun. Plus, I have to kill a chicken snake for her every so often.
Seriously, I got a $20 thrower and for a box of ammo and pigeons it's probably the cheapest way to spend an hour or two.
So par for the course...