There are actually quite a lot of regulations, in not all, but a lot of US states, that mandate varying levels of safe storage of firearms.
The problem is that to actually enforce that fully, you’d basically need surprise food inspectors, but for guns… which would probably run into the 4th Amendment… or, you’d have to actually revamp the 2nd Ammendment to mandate that people be required to regularly retake/retest on some kind of firearm safety course… I dunno.
But yeah, an actually responsible gun owner… probably has something like a dedicated sand bucket to point a semi auto weapon into, while they are verifying that its fully unloaded and cleared, juuuuust in case some kind of uncommanded discharge happens when you’re racking the slide to get the (potentially) chambered round out.
And yeah, never sweep anybody (or a place where anybody could be, within a mile) even with a gun you personally just unloaded. Never finger a trigger when you don’t need to. You just don’t do that.
I would at least say its possible the dog discharged the weapon, but it doesn’t matter, the situation where that is a thing that can happen should never have been allowed to arise… and yeah, the situations you describe that lead to an ND occuring are much more likely.
Yeah, precisely.
There are actually quite a lot of regulations, in not all, but a lot of US states, that mandate varying levels of safe storage of firearms.
The problem is that to actually enforce that fully, you’d basically need surprise food inspectors, but for guns… which would probably run into the 4th Amendment… or, you’d have to actually revamp the 2nd Ammendment to mandate that people be required to regularly retake/retest on some kind of firearm safety course… I dunno.
But yeah, an actually responsible gun owner… probably has something like a dedicated sand bucket to point a semi auto weapon into, while they are verifying that its fully unloaded and cleared, juuuuust in case some kind of uncommanded discharge happens when you’re racking the slide to get the (potentially) chambered round out.
And yeah, never sweep anybody (or a place where anybody could be, within a mile) even with a gun you personally just unloaded. Never finger a trigger when you don’t need to. You just don’t do that.
I would at least say its possible the dog discharged the weapon, but it doesn’t matter, the situation where that is a thing that can happen should never have been allowed to arise… and yeah, the situations you describe that lead to an ND occuring are much more likely.