Arkansas Paul
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There are dumb@#%#es everywhere. The only thing you can do is remember where they are and not go there again.
While we're on the subject.. When I ask to see a semi-automatic handgun They always remove the magazine and lock the slide back, and hand it to me. I then close the slide (for lack of a better term) then look down the sights and dry fire it. I've never had anyone say any thing to me, but is the procedure you guys usually follow?
Almost...While we're on the subject.. When I ask to see a semi-automatic handgun They always remove the magazine and lock the slide back, and hand it to me. I then close the slide (for lack of a better term) then look down the sights and dry fire it. I've never had anyone say any thing to me, but is the procedure you guys usually follow?
Almost...
Some gun shops are really freaky about dry firing. Not many but a few.
On a purely intuitive basis you are absolutely correct. Unfortunately that pesky thing called reality often jumps up out of no where and bites us in the butt.If a gun is made for handleing explosive forces slamming the slide back and forth, then there would never be a reason to think it would hurt the gun to rack the slide, or let it snap back being unloaded.
+1 for knowing what store this was?
I asked him if he cared to tell me what he was doing, and he said that I had “devalued his gun because pulling the slide back scars the rails and breech, and I just cut the value of his gun in half”. He told me and my brothers not to move that he was getting the owner to come decide if I owed him any money for damaging this gun.
I don't see a need to ask to safely handle a weapon unless it's a collector's item.