When he shot his car, I was there and it didn’t really unnerve me. This was 5 years ago probably. Or more. It’s always been sorta a joke.
When he had the ND in my house, I didn’t get up and punch him, or yell at him or scold him. I was shocked. I didn’t really know how to react. He left pretty quick. But I started thinking, wow, it isn’t just a little infraction here or there. We started looking at his guns outside after that. And I started distancing myself from shooting with him or having him over. This incident was in a safe direction, through my entertainment center towards a concrete wall.
The ND in his house I think happened right around the same time as the one in my house. I was over there sometime afterwards and seen a patch on the sheet rock. I said. What happened there, your shoot a hole through the wall? And he said yes. Said he was dry firing. It was in a fairly safe direction. To an outside wall towards a hill.
Other than self reflection, it’s not like he’s had a talking to about it. So I’m thinking maybe he isn’t aware of his bad gun handling. Obviously he knows negligent discharges aren’t acceptable. He does have decent finger discipline though.
He has a bad habit of racking the slide on a pistol or bolt on a rifle, but not actually checking to see if it’s loaded, just going through the motions.
I wonder though if any safety improvements will be the same, just going through the motions.