so my buddy and I were re-doing the siding on his house, and using a pneumatic nailer. while handling it, just out of habit, I avoided pointing it at either of us, kept my finger off the trigger, handed it to him grip-first, muzzle-down, all that good stuff. my buddy, not really a gun guy, noticed and made the connection and sort of took up the same habit. these habits were confirmed to be a good idea when at one point, he plugged the air-line into the compressor, and a nail discharged!philip964 wrote:...Keep the finger off the trigger unless you want to nail something.
Don't point the nail gun at something you don't want to nail.
The nailgun is always loaded.
I was holding it, and the nail furrowed itself in the ground in front of me. we both paused and looked at each other with shocked expressions. we did some experimentation to try and understand what happened. it turns out with this nailer, if, while not pressurized, you depressed the muzzle safety against something, then pulled the trigger, it set itself up to fire as soon as air was plugged in. after that incident, we used firearms safety protocol for the remainder of the project.