exbellicus wrote:Well today, my gun was sitting next to me on my desk. This is where I typically keep it while at home working at my computer and not wearing shorts/pants with a belt. (No kids, wife is well gun educated.)
So my brother and sister in law came over today.. In the past, he's mentioned interest in purchasing a firearm for home defense, shooting, etc. I've showed him my guns a couple times in the past. As always, I unload and verify it's clear before I hand it to ANYONE. He's also been to the range with another family member. So I'm sitting here at my desk and the BIL walks over from behind me and picks up my gun. I stop him, take the gun back, drop the mag and clear the chamber, rack the slide a couple times, and hand it back to him. In astonishment he says, 'oh was it loaded?' My response....'yes, of course.' He says 'and the safety wasn't on?' I say 'no, it doesn't have one.'
What does he say? 'Wow! I was about to point it at my head and pull the trigger as a joke!'
No joke. My brother in law was a few seconds away from blowing his head off in front of my wife and his wife.
Just a quick reminder there's some real MORONS hanging around! Definitely some lessons learned on my end about keeping a better watch on my firearm and not making assumptions about common sense gun safety.
I see this is a two month old story and that there is a novels worth of responses I have yet to read but, just reading this sent chills up my spine! That would have been a gawd awful thing to live with. Glad it turned out the way it did.
Several years ago when my son in law was first dating my daughter, he came over for dinner. I had placed a small 380 on my counter as I had just come in. Timing being close, he walked in from the front within minutes and I was wrapped up in saying howdy so forgot the gun was sitting on the counter. At the time, his exposure to firearms was little to none. He sees the gun and like a little kid starts moving towards it as he shouts, "oh, look at the little gun". Before I knew what was happening he was reaching out and almost had his hand on it. My daughter shouts, "don't touch it" loud enough that she caused us all to lock up. She has been around guns all her life and would never grab up a weapon off the counter like that, but she was quick enough to see her boy friend headed toward a huge problem. I had to hear her lecture me about firearms safety! I was proud and embarrassed for my mistake at the same instant.
I live alone and i am not accustomed to visitors. I have to make a conscious effort to put up weapons before anyone comes over. I have them in drawers all over the place. Mostly for home invasion purposes.