go to a public shooting range often
enough and i guarantee you you will see
stupidity like this
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hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection it's a
lesson on what not to do i'm your host
john korea and this one comes to us from
sao paulo del norte houston texas
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recommend magtech wholeheartedly the
news story that i've linked in the
description said that these guys brought
their own firearm and watched the safety
brief at the range in order to go and
use the range and now they set their gun
out and all that stuff now watch our
dude here in the green shirts gonna get
his camera out and then pick this
firearm up put his finger on the trigger
and start taking selfies with it oh
that's kind of cool wait i gotta get the
selfie right so he's gonna turn that
around again fingers on the trigger and
and take a selfie now he's going to turn
him pointed at his buddy's head when
thankfully the range safety officer sees
it steps in and grabs a hold of that and
thankfully i think tries to recognize
put make sure that the gun is safe and
then take these guys off the range kick
them out they were never allowed back we
get to think about some lessons as
firearm carriers in this one all right
let's hear it in the comments today
what's the craziest and most egregious
safety violation that you have seen at
the shooting range let me know and we
will maybe even read some of the
greatest ones on our instagram first let
me say i am absolutely for the right to
keep and bear arms that all people have
the right to self-defense and i'm a
second amendment absolutist i think
everybody should have the right to keep
firearms and to use them that being said
we are then responsible for safe
firearms handling practices and we must
follow safe firearms handling procedures
at all time always keep the fire pointed
in the direction of least consequence
always keep our finger off the trigger
until the conscious decision of fire has
been made always keep firearms unloaded
until they are in use that's the ones
that we follow and this guy breaks them
all so you're gonna see the first one
here
and and i guess he doesn't actually
break them all but you see the first one
here he goes pick that gun up and he
immediately puts his finger inside the
trigger guard so recognize this number
one that when you go to grab that gun
it's a dangerous time you want to make
sure that your finger is high and in
register so that you do not
inadvertently put your finger on the
trigger of a firearm number two that
firearm is sitting on the bench and it's
sitting with the slide forward so you
can't tell whether or not that firearm
is loaded or unloaded instead you wanna
when you put a gun down i would
encourage you lock that slide to the
rear put it with the ejector port up so
that you can visually verify now of
course keeping that firearm pointed in a
safe direction in the direction of least
consequence important he's doing that so
far here finger you can see is on the
trigger though his finger is snuck all
the way inside the trigger guard and now
look at the direction that he's pointing
that firearm he's already begun by
pointing that firearm you know uh
at the person next to him on the next
bay
or at the very least at the wall that
wall i don't know is going to stop
bullets that is not a safe direction at
the range in the range environment the
only safe direction is at the berm the
backstop or safely in a holster or in a
case depending on your range so again
point it in the direction of least
consequence fails that here so that he
can get a selfie which is really really
stupid and points the gun at his hand a
couple times doing that now then he
decides instead oh let's let me point
that at my buddy's head this right here
quite frankly makes me incredibly angry
that that if that's my friend and my
friend decides oh it's not loaded so i'm
gonna point a gun at his head to take a
selfie with him that is an absolute
invitation to a fist fight this is
gravely irresponsible people get killed
doing this all the time because they go
oh what it wasn't loaded or whatever
that is completely irrelevant number one
number two i see people think guns are
unloaded all the time press the trigger
because they're joking with their friend
and kill them constantly so thankfully
here i love the fact that this range
safety officer and this range employee
stepped in
generally speaking as a firearms
instructor and as somebody who does rain
safety work all the time i tell people
you don't put your hands on students
without their permission there is one
exception to not putting your hands on a
student without permission and that is
when somebody is doing something
radically unsafe that you must put your
hands on them in order to stop them from
potentially going to prison for
manslaughter at the very least and
taking an innocent life and so i think
that this race safety officer did it
exactly right and grabbing a hold of
this guy putting the gun down range and
then getting him to to put it away i
also think it's entirely appropriate for
him to then go nope we're gonna do that
you're gonna get out of here and then
you notice here he tries to you know see
if the gun is loaded or unloaded looks
to me like he was didn't have a magazine
to pull out of the gun and nothing came
out of the gun okay fine so the firearm
probably was not loaded in this case so
he did follow rule three which tells me
something that tells me that we have to
violate all three rules of safe firearms
handling for somebody to get hurt we had
two out of three violations of this one
and thankfully because of that nobody
got hurt but we have all three rules for
a reason we keep all three rules for a
reason we practice all three of them all
the time so that we have margins for
safety this is the kind of incredibly
difficult to to even watch an incredibly
irresponsible firearms handling that we
need none of in america so let's be
better as firearms owners as we seek to
cover our asp