On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:44:43 -0400, Wayne B wrote:

On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:30:11 -0400, J Herring
wrote:

My wife just completed a five hour course in gun safety and firing. How much more time should be
spent in telling a person that every gun is loaded, point only down range, and don't put finger on
the trigger until ready to shoot.

What kinds of things would you add to the course that should require a lot more time.

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Clearing jams, inspection, cleaning, unloading. A high percentage of
accidental discharges occur during one of those four operations.

From there you could go on to strategies for developing speed and
accuracy, range practice, different types of guns, etc.

She's got me for the cleaning. And, if the gun is not loaded, then the cleaning is not a safety
issue. She was taught how to check for a round in the chamber or in the cylinder.

Could she have been taught lots more? Sure - but she's not being taught to be an Infantryman. She's
being taught how to safely use a firearm. She's sure not worried about speed or different types of
guns. She needed the instruction on the guns we have - not someone's else's AR15.


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