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bilgerat57 wrote:I drive my wife nuts with my habit. Whenever we have to go in some place that I cannot carry, I lock the weapon away. The first thing I do when I return to the vehicle is check the action to insure it is loaded. It's just a good habit to have. A friend of mine has a little sign in his gun room that says, "If you touch it, Check it!" I will clean my wifes weapons, but I absolutely refuse to load them for her. I won't allow her to load mine either. I guess that makes me......something or other....LOL Be happy about one thing though. You got an extremely valuable and emphatic lesson with nobody getting hurt. That's as good as it gets!

...SURE that noone's gonna mess up...glad to see you so careful...I often pick up a gun 'round here and press check it if it's been lying there long at all...somebody (who KNOWS better) could have messed with it...they don't lock doors, leave the milk out, don't put the stapler back...why wouldn't they mess with our gun??? We check it...then we're sure...click when you're expecting a BANG is a horrible sound...

...thanks for relating it to us...now maybe WE won't either!!!

...happy that all turned out well...and that you both learned a good lesson cheaply...I never take a gun from anyone unless I open the action as I touch it...and I even check my carry as I pick it up at the house...just in case one of my sons looked at it and left the barrel empty...I learned the hard way about being sure...as a young rookie, my training officer wanted to trade me a Model 39 for my snub .357...which I was carrying at work...we were at a coffeeshop out on a gravel parking lot...sippin' and lookin' at each other's guns...I reloaded and put it back in the holster...with him looking straight at me...he said "let me see that one more time"...I eased it out and lay it in his hand...and he put it beside his leg and squeezed the trigger as I screamed 'J...it's loaded!!!" The bullet creased his knee, missed his foot, and went through the floorboard of the squad...we were deaf for 3 nights...it's a great part of my hearing loss...a full-house magnum round...but he could have been crippled...and he KNEW it was loaded...
...there's times to practice with a real gun for feel and balance and such...but it's good to check it every time you touch it...and show it to anyone else there...another rule is never hand someone a gun with the action closed...even if you just checked it...you can goof...check it...hand it over...insist that THEY check it, and still follow the rules, especially #1...