REMEMBER THE FOUR RULES!

jbirds1210 · #1

From the Houston Chronicle. This article is a good reminder that many of us will give and receive firearms as Christmas gifts this year. A new gun from the box is no guarantee that it is unloaded. Be safe! Check those chambers five times and keep em pointed in a safe direction!

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hea ... 07546.html

seamusTX · #2

A woman who was asleep in bed just after midnight Friday was killed by a stray bullet from a neighbor's gun.

... the bullet believed to have been accidentally discharged while a 30-year-old man was cleaning his rifle.

Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture?

- Jim

stroo · #3

Shows that walls don't necessarily stop bullets very well either. You need to know it behind the wall before you point a gun at it.

Houston1944 · #4

I saw this on the news last night. Very sad for the woman's family and sad but stupid for the shooter. Guns don't go bang unless you pull the trigger. I'm sure that even the old 30-30 would go through many layers of 1/2" sheetrock before becoming non lethal. This sounds like nothing but someone pulling the trigger without checking the chamber. No excuse for this. Two lives ruined and both families will suffer.

KBCraig · #5

seamusTX wrote:
A woman who was asleep in bed just after midnight
Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture?

It's not a 9-5 world, Jim. I've cleaned guns after midnight -- mostly because that's when I get off work.

Kevin

seamusTX · #6

KBCraig wrote:It's not a 9-5 world, Jim. I've cleaned guns after midnight -- mostly because that's when I get off work.

I don't work 9-5, but I prefer to clean my weapons outdoors in daylight.

It just seems like a lot of weird stuff happens late at night or before dawn. You know what I mean.

- Jim

KBCraig · #7

Yeah, I do. That's why you won't find me out there with the weirdness late at night -- I'll be at home, cleaning guns.

seamusTX · #8

KBCraig wrote:That's why you won't find me out there with the weirdness late at night -- I'll be at home, cleaning guns.

I'm confident that you will be in full possession of your faculties and not shooting mice with a .30-06 or something like that.

- Jim

casselthief · #9

any given day, I see midnight, or later.
yes, I'm younger than, I dunno, everyone here (it seems), but still.
I found the most productive time of my day is after noon, and after dark.
went to the range Saturday, and cleaned my gun(s) that night, whilst watching the 'Boys trounce ATL.
I think it's the most calming thing in the world, sitting there scrubbing and what not on a pistol. I personally think it's a great thing to do right before bed.

txinvestigator · #10

casselthief wrote:any given day, I see midnight, or later.
yes, I'm younger than, I dunno, everyone here (it seems), but still.
I found the most productive time of my day is after noon, and after dark.
went to the range Saturday, and cleaned my gun(s) that night, whilst watching the 'Boys trounce ATL.
I think it's the most calming thing in the world, sitting there scrubbing and what not on a pistol. I personally think it's a great thing to do right before bed.

Nothing like the smell of Hoppees......................

longtooth · #11

Hey guys I smell like that remark right now.
Just finished cleaning my S&W 66.
Just talked to the wife & she is going shopping tonight & I was told I cannot go w/ her.

Think I will just go dirty it up again.

jbirds1210 · #12

casselthief wrote: I'm younger than, I dunno, everyone here (it seems).

That is a pretty bold assumption! Longtooth just met the age requirement for his CHL.....what are ya....23 this year?

I also clean em late at night....I prefer to use the kitchen counter as it is often off limits during cooking hours!
Jason

#13

I prefer to use the kitchen counter as it is often off limits during cooking hours!

I use the kitchen, too. Partly because I prefer to stand, and the sink comes in handy (the disposer doesn't mind an run-off drop or two of gun oil), and, the biggie: the kitchen is the room I've designated in the house as the one where no ammo is allowed. I stick to that stringently. No ammo of any kind ever crosses the threshold to the kitchen. If I'm taking a firearm into the kitchen, it gets opened and inspected before I ever step onto the tile. It sounds simplistic and Adrian Monk-ish, but I think that a "no-ammo room" is a good safety policy for everyone.

longtooth · #14

jbirds1210 wrote:
casselthief wrote: I'm younger than, I dunno, everyone here (it seems).
That is a pretty bold assumption! Longtooth just met the age requirement for his CHL.....what are ya....23 this year?

I also clean em late at night....I prefer to use the kitchen counter as it is often off limits during cooking hours!
Jason

jbird you know better than that. I have kids older than you, & if castlethief is telling the whole truth I probably have a granddaughter nearly his age.
Thank you for the compliment though.

Hey skipper, that no ammo room is a good idea.
Kitchen to clean in though,

My wife would kill me for that.
Loading bench for me. That room is mine.

#15

Hey skipper, that no ammo room is a good idea.
Kitchen to clean in though, My wife would kill me for that.
Loading bench for me. That room is mine.

If you promise her a new refrigerator, she may let you use the kitchen.

Seriously, that just happened to be the room, or "designated area," I found that I could label as "no-ammo." I was dead-set about the quarantine, so I didn't even want an area I had to walk through to get to and from the front door, back door, or garage. The kitchen was it.

An old adage goes: "There are two kinds of gun owners: those who have never had an accidental discharge...and those who will."

I never have. And I do whatever I can to prove that adage wrong.