Yoda
Member
I've written here many times before that it is a good safety practice to require that guns be unloaded in gun shops and at gun shows, where people are likely to be doing dry fires and waving guns all over the place. The risk of accident is just too high. The news item linked below is just one tragic example of what can go wrong. The husband has lost his wife and gained a lifetime of nightmares.
I've been in a pawn shop where an owner kept a revolver chambered for .17 HMR in the original box along with a box of ammo. When I pointed out to him that this was VERY unsafe, he just patted his own pistol and said, "Let someone try something!" This wasn't about being a hero. This was about the potential that someone might unintentionally (or intentionally!) leave a round in the gun, and that someone else might pick it up and accidentally discharge it.
I've been in another shop where a customer held a gun at waist level and waved it around, constantly pulling the trigger and telling everyone how smooth it was. Geez!
OK, so we don't know the specifics about what happened in the case linked below, but we DO know that if a gunshop owner specifies that you unload your gun in his shop, you should comply or go somewhere else.
Here's the link:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-22-11-40-28
BE SAFE!
I've been in a pawn shop where an owner kept a revolver chambered for .17 HMR in the original box along with a box of ammo. When I pointed out to him that this was VERY unsafe, he just patted his own pistol and said, "Let someone try something!" This wasn't about being a hero. This was about the potential that someone might unintentionally (or intentionally!) leave a round in the gun, and that someone else might pick it up and accidentally discharge it.
I've been in another shop where a customer held a gun at waist level and waved it around, constantly pulling the trigger and telling everyone how smooth it was. Geez!
OK, so we don't know the specifics about what happened in the case linked below, but we DO know that if a gunshop owner specifies that you unload your gun in his shop, you should comply or go somewhere else.
Here's the link:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-22-11-40-28
BE SAFE!