On Jul 29, 1:03*pm, wrote:
On Sunday, July 29, 2012 1:47:38 PM UTC-4, iBoaterer wrote:
In article , dump-on-

says...

On 7/29/12 12:15 PM, wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 07:42:55 -0400, X ` Man

wrote:

Surprised you don't know this, since you "qualified" with a pistol

"about a dozen times." What was your qualification about? Didn't it

include safe handling?

The side arm was never much of a priority in most military training..

Your regular soldier was not going to get one anyway. They were just

for people who would not usually have a rifle.

If you are an MP or SP you should get extra training and I assume

officers get some training but from my experience the officer's

training is somewhat superficial too.

I was in ordinance, working for a CPO who was on the USCG pistol team

for a while so we all got more than the usual pistol training. I

sought out as much as I could get and actually got a lot of range

time. I also wanted to know how to maintain everything in the armory.

I would have thought that proper "safety training" would have been a

priority. When I took my training, I spent the first few hours in class

with an instructor who showed us a safety video or two, and then spent

the rest of the time showing us how to handle the firearm, how to field

strip it, how to unjam it, how to remove stovepipes, how to store it, et

cetera. We didn't even get to the range until halfway through the second

lesson.

Maybe the instructor thought you were slow.

My dad taught me gun safety before I was 10 years old. *Shot a .44 mag when I was 9. *Started helping reload back then.

It's sort of weird to think about a 60+ year old needing gun classes. *I guess some of those yanks grew up with lace on their underwear.

I owned a .22 rifle when I was 10 and a .357 mag. when I was 16.