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bblhd672 wrote:Complacency can cause many things to happen once you've done something hundreds of times.

Still in my first year of daily handling a firearm so I'm still extremely cautious about safe practices. However I just cleaned my pistol with the magazine and 1 loose round on the table.

This was driven home to me many, many years ago. A gentleman who was a client and friend of my father and a school friend of mine was killed in a gunsmith's shop. He sold high quality cutlery, knives, scissors and surgical equipment and was at the shop on business talking to the gunsmith who was working on a pistol. I'm sure the gunsmith had routinely checked firearms for decades to ascertain their safe condition, but what was a routine action was somehow overlooked with tragic results. Likewise a police officer I knew and had sold firearms to accidentally shot and killed another officer who was visiting him. He was showing him a little pocket semi-automatic pistol. Habitual behavior can become so automatic that the mind assumes it is done.