I do my bestHeartland Patriot wrote:Your efforts are appreciated, if no one has told you that before. We should all do what we can to "preach" firearms safety; a LOT of folks just never get exposed to firearms PROPERLY and it shows.MadMonkey wrote:I've had my share of dealings with people who are otherwise smart, but turn into complete buffoons when they pick up a gun. Luckily I've managed to convert a few.
I was showing a friend an AR I had just built, and I put a magful of snap caps in to demonstrate the operation. When I was finished, I cleared it, and he asked to see it... then asked for the magazine with the snap caps again. Suspicious, I asked him why. He said he wanted to take it into the next room and chamber a snap cap, then point the gun at his roommate to scare him
Me: ".....No. Seriously??"
He honestly couldn't figure out why I was so annoyed at him. I put him and the roommate through a couple of hours of my own brand of safety training (I'm not an instructor, but I do my best with the limited knowledge I have), and a year later both of them had matured enough to shoot near-perfect CHL qualifications and now carry. They have a much healthier respect for firearms than they did before we began discussing them, even though both had shot before. Sometimes it just takes someone reaaaally paranoid (like me
) to make them realize that safety is a big deal.Just a couple of weeks ago before heading back over here I took my mom to the range for the first time. THAT was a bit of a safety workout... but no RSOs came in screaming at me, so I guess we did okay
I hate the idea of instructing, but once I'm actually there I enjoy it.Here she is shooting my Five Seven:
Her groups were embarrassing me, but my excuse is that I was on a private lane so I was rapid firing