here's the honest truth that I think
that people need to recognize just
because you can own a gun doesn't mean
you should thank you for joining us on
today's act of self protection lesson
I'm your host John Correa today's video
comes to us out of a gun store in Athens
Georgia today's video is brought to you
by MagTek ammunition the exclusive
supplier of range ammunition for all
active self-protection training ok so we
see this range happening here the guy in
the yellow shirt is a guy we're gonna be
real concerned with his girlfriend is to
our left his right and they're you know
just joking about going out and shooting
on the range now he's gonna pick up his
Glock 26 there and start waving it
around the slide is locked to the rear
but you see him pointing it at God and
everyone and our employees like hey man
don't do that notice our guy here's
gonna take a magazine out and say look I
got a magazine full of ammo for my Glock
26 and the employee is like hey man
don't put that magazine in the gun oh
okay fine so he is gonna grab his target
they have reserved a line on the range
and he's gonna get him their equipment
okay great and now our dude is gonna put
the magazine in the gun without thinking
about it notice all the people around
who are getting ready to go on the range
themselves now watch our dude here is
going to drop his slide but when he
drops his slide he has his finger on the
trigger and the gun goes off and when I
talked to the employees at this
organization he was banned from this
range forever said he was grossly and
badly sorry for what he had done but he
has not welcomed there anymore and that
is where this one ends thankfully no one
was hurt that is dumb on an astronomical
level if you want to get better with
your firearms handling and not do stupid
stuff like that one of the ways you can
do that's join us on our cover-your-ass
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be in your area come and train with us
so that you don't do dumb stuff like
this would you let's think about lessons
here so let's talk about living with
firearms we have to practice the rules
of firearm safety all the time doubly so
when we're going to be handling firearms
and this guy broke all the rules of
firearm safety first rule of firearm
safety again we always keep firearms
pointed in a safe direction always
always always
the second you pick a gun up with a
second you have a firearm in your hand
you are responsible for the safe
direction of that firearm now I see a
lot of people who say oh the slides lock
to the rear oh it's
loaded or whatever no the rule is always
keep firearms pointed in a safe
direction and that from the second that
you pick it up and he did not do that
here he was being very casual with his
understanding of how to use this firearm
and that was his first problem now he's
gonna waive this gun around which is
again an egregious mess and noticed that
the employee now is starting to really
pay attention to him and notice where
he's pointing it now now he's put it in
his hand has the gun in his hand has the
slide in his support hand and it is
pointed at the back of a child now it
may not be exactly pointed at the back
of that child but again you must take
extreme care to always keep live
firearms pointed in a safe direction
now then he's going to start going in
his pocket here in a second and violate
the third rule of firearm safety which
is always keep firearms unloaded until
they're in use so he's gonna start
thinking about jamming that that
magazine in there know until you're
actually using the gun now that can be
for defensive purposes the gun that I
keep on my person for personal defence
should be loaded but otherwise leave the
stupid gun on loaded and him loading
this firearm here is what caused one of
the significant challenges because then
he decided to drop the slide forgot that
he had put a magazine in the gun and so
that he had chambered around in the gun
if he had not chained I'll put that
magazine in the gun and left the gun
unloaded til he got out on the range
he wouldn't had that problem had he had
a quality holster on his person wouldn't
had to futz around pointing a firearm in
an unsafe direction or drop the slide to
begin with this would not have been a
problem so get a quality holster and
leave it there don't load the gun unless
you are have the gun on your person for
a personal defense and that's it finally
the second rule of firearm safety is
that we do not put our finger on the
trigger until we have made the decision
to fire till we our sights are on the
target and we have made a conscious
decision to fire the gun I see this all
the time with people they drop the slide
with their finger on the trigger and
they said oh my fingers not on the
trigger but in reality it is and as a
firearms instructor I teach about 300 to
350 students a year on the line with
active self-protection and we see
students do stuff like this with some
regularity so again the three rules
always keep firearms pointed in a safe
direction always keep your finger off
the trigger until your sights are on the
target you made the decision to fire
always keep the gun unloaded until you
until it's actually in use now notice
here thank God
nobody got hurt the reason that nobody
got hurt is in that moment in the moment
that things went down he violated two of
the three rules of firearm safety his
finger was on the trigger and the gun
was loaded but thankfully it was pointed
in a direction that no one was hurt but
that was only by accident and yes this
guy should be banned from that range and
he definitely should take some remedial
firearms training before handling
firearms again so you guys know I am an
absolutist when it comes to the Second
Amendment I absolutely support the right
to keep and bear arms for all people but
I also think that every right comes with
a concomitant responsibility and that
responsibility is to be a safe and
responsible firearms owner to follow the
rules of firearm safety at all times and
don't put your safety and the safety of
others at risk I'm not saying that any
of us are above having a negligent
discharge because I know plenty of
really high quality people who have had
a moment of weakness and had one of
those but I want us to minimize those so
always practice the rules of firearm
safety be especially diligent when
you're handling firearms in an
environment like a range and let's learn
and be practicing our safe firearms
handling at all times as we cover our
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