Hey guys I'm retired Navy SEAL sniper instructor Chris Sajnog
founder of the new rules of marksmanship training system in this video I'm going
to be teaching you the four firearm safety rules now let's go ahead and get
started
all right so when it comes to training with any firearm with any weapon system
it's critical that you understand the firearm safety rules because if you are
shooting things that you shouldn't shoot and people are getting hurt or you're
shooting even the ceiling that is not a good thing you want your rounds to go
where you want them to go and by following these four simple safety rules
it is going to be impossible for you to shoot something that you don't want to
shoot I'm gonna teach you the firearm safety rules the same way that I teach
anybody who I teach how to shoot including my children the first firearm
safety rule is you need to treat all firearms as if they are loaded despite
what you may think of that firearm if you think that a gun is not loaded such
as somebody hands you a firearm and says hey I unloaded this gun I want you to
treat that gun like it's still loaded if you have a gun in your holster and you
go to pull that gun out and you think that it is unloaded I want you to treat
it like it's loaded and make sure that it is unloaded if it needs to be
unloaded that is critical always treat it like it's loaded so number two is
you're gonna keep your finger off of the trigger until it is pointed in a safe
direction this is really important because if you have your finger on the
trigger and you get startled you can have a startle response which is going
to clench your hand down you're just gonna freeze up and if your fingers on
that trigger a round can go off unintentionally and so finger off the
trigger until you're ready to shoot so next up is you're always going to point
your gun in a safe direction and never point it at anything that you are not
willing to shoot if you never point your gun at somebody you don't want to shoot
or something you don't want to shoot at least if the gun goes off you're not
going to hurt anybody or anything that you really care about of course you may
be a little embarrassed or whatnot but as long as you do that nothing really
bad is gonna happen so the last one that you
need to know and understand is know your target and also you need to know what's
in front of it and what's behind it so this can become critical in like a home
defense type situation where somebody comes in your home and you want to shoot
that person but right behind that person is maybe your kid's bedroom or something
like that you always need to be aware of that you also need to be aware of say
you're in law enforcement that people could be moving in front of your target
so you always have to be aware of not just your target what's in front what's
behind it but you also have to know what could move to any of those places in a
dynamic shooting situation dynamic means that everything's moving you're moving
the targets moving and things around the target are moving so you really need to
practice awareness no matter what situation you're in I love using blue
guns or training guns or non guns whatever you want to call them pieces of
plastic that cannot hurt anybody unless you were to whack them over the head
with it the reason for that is number one of course there's no way that
anybody's going to get hurt from using this but to the person that's learning
is going to have a very low level of stress because they also know that they
so they're gonna be able to learn a lot faster all right so I'm gonna teach you
literally the same way that I taught my kids firearm safety so the first thing
that I did was I got them to understand where the bullets come out of the gun
and where the trigger is they needed to be able to identify all
the different parts of the gun when I asked them and I did this over a period
of time it wasn't like once they said it right one time I was like okay let's go
to the range and start blasting some caps I made sure that they really knew
it and understand it the next thing that I did was I taught them the firearm
safety rules and I got them to tell me in their own words what it meant and why
it was important your understanding of the rules are much more important than
the exact words used for the rules because people were them differently but
as long as you're doing the intended meaning of those four rules you're going
to be safe so after they
that I had them basically pick up a blue gun on a table just like I have here
using the four firearm safety rules so again number one is always assume that a
firearm is loaded I see this gun and I go oh this gun is probably loaded
so right there right off the bat I understand that I am going to treat it
with respect now with my kids at home when I teach them if they saw a gun on a
table at somebody's house or they're at a friend's house and their friend pulls
out a gun they assume it's loaded they run out of there and they yell gun and
they find responsible adult to deal with the situation they're not going to pick
it up they're not going to ask him about it they're not going to ask if it was
loaded they're gonna treat it like it was loaded and they're gonna get out of
there and if you have kids I highly recommend
you teach them that critical skill it could save their lives but I want them
to pick this gun up because eventually I want to be able to take them to the
range and actually shoot a firearm they're not gonna be able to pick it up
like this because of firearm safety rule number two so that means that they're
gonna have to pick it up in a way that number one they're not putting their
finger on the trigger and number two they're not going to pick
it up and point it at me or their brother or anybody else or my nice TV
they're going to pick it up and not touch the trigger when they pull it up
and not point it at anything they don't want to shoot so they keep it pointed in
a safe direction so the last thing that firearm safety rule number four is know
your target and what's beyond it so for this what I would do is just give them
situations and with us it was interesting because we got to where
we're shooting airsoft and stuff in the backyard and I'd set up a target but I
would always ask them what's beyond your target like what are some possible
things over there and they're like well the neighbor's house and we'd be like
okay well our targets set up in a way where it's not at the neighbors house
that you know it's not over here it's facing this way so that's safe and what
else well we have a dog Luna Luna could potentially run in front of
the target so we know that we need to be aware of things that could come in front
of our target or behind it that is it those are the four firearm safety rules
make sure you practice them every time you train and I recommend training at
home if you didn't know that already and I recommend using dry fire now the
reason I bring that up is because by definition if you are dry firing there
is no ammunition in your gun there's no ammunition in your magazine
and it is physically impossible to have an accidental or negligent discharge
it's impossible because you cleared out your gun
you cleared out your magazines you took your ammunition you put it in another
room you locked it up you closed yourself in a room you checked your gun
in your magazines three times you told yourself you're dry firing and then you
practice you're dry firing if you have an accidental discharge or negligent
discharge with a firearm you were not dry fire training so just keep that in
mind training at home is very safe you just need to follow the safety rules so
that's all I have for you today until next time keep paving your path safely
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