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G.C.Montgomery wrote:
Not pointing fingers because I'm assuming you witnessed rather than experienced these lessons, right? We must learn from other people's mistakes...We surely will not live long enough to make them all ourselves!

Yes I was only a post-event witness and first-aider...


In reference to other comments == the four Golden Rules of firearms are overlapping -- you can often get away with violating one of them, and be protected by the others. Start stacking 'violations' on top of each other, you get problems.

Just got back from a medical run as a VFD first responder. Some notes:

1. Always carry your Kahr P-40 -- or any other pistol -- in a pocket holster. It will help with numbers 2 and 3 below.

2. Keep your finger off the trigger when you are pocketing your pistol. Keep everything else off of the trigger when pocketing the pistol. See number 1.

3. When pocketing the pistol, make sure you have it pointing parallel to your thigh, not pointing at it, not even slightly. More generally, don't point your pistol at anything you really don't want to put a hole in. Also, see number 1.

4. .40 Gold Dot expands perfectly when passing completely through approximately 12 inches of flesh without contacting bone.

5. Getting shot can be painful. You don't necessarily bleed externally alot, but the swelling can be quite impressive. And painful.

End of lesson.