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<blockquote data-quote="tulsamal" data-source="post: 2082573" data-attributes="member: 571">OK, she can&#039;t express herself properly but we know what she meant. &quot;Lots of people have been shot by guns they _thought_ were unloaded.&quot;The majority of my guns are in safes but there are always strays around the house. Guns I was &quot;looking at&quot; or dry firing. Plus my carry gun and a few hideaway guns stashed here and there that are loaded. At 51 years of age, I&#039;ve spent many thousands of hours with guns in my hands. Plus my Army time as a soldier and unit armorer. So I know it is fun to make fun of the anti-gun person but it never hurts to remember the basic safety lesson. &quot;All guns are always loaded.&quot; That&#039;s the way I trained my children. That and &quot;Safeties.... aren&#039;t.&quot; Anybody that handles guns literally every day has to fight complacency with them. I have several revolvers that are in sight in the living room and dining room. They are unloaded and always are. I pick them up every day. I dry fire them on occasion. But I absolutely insist to myself that I check them when I pick them up. I don&#039;t know how they could get loaded... maybe a magical &quot;little person&quot; showed up in the night and put some rounds in them? But I still force myself to ALWAYS check each cylinder before I start handling them.So yeah, she&#039;s an idiot. But don&#039;t dismiss the idea, even if she couldn&#039;t express it worth beans! (And she was wrong to try to use that to oppose CA style unloaded firearm carry.)Gregg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tulsamal, post: 2082573, member: 571"] OK, she can't express herself properly but we know what she meant. "Lots of people have been shot by guns they _thought_ were unloaded." The majority of my guns are in safes but there are always strays around the house. Guns I was "looking at" or dry firing. Plus my carry gun and a few hideaway guns stashed here and there that are loaded. At 51 years of age, I've spent many thousands of hours with guns in my hands. Plus my Army time as a soldier and unit armorer. So I know it is fun to make fun of the anti-gun person but it never hurts to remember the basic safety lesson. "All guns are always loaded." That's the way I trained my children. That and "Safeties.... aren't." Anybody that handles guns literally every day has to fight complacency with them. I have several revolvers that are in sight in the living room and dining room. They are unloaded and always are. I pick them up every day. I dry fire them on occasion. But I absolutely insist to myself that I check them when I pick them up. I don't know how they could get loaded... maybe a magical "little person" showed up in the night and put some rounds in them? But I still force myself to ALWAYS check each cylinder before I start handling them. So yeah, she's an idiot. But don't dismiss the idea, even if she couldn't express it worth beans! (And she was wrong to try to use that to oppose CA style unloaded firearm carry.) Gregg [/QUOTE]

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