Your firearm pet peeves? With bonus picture inside

[whbonney26]

Some people freak out when muzzle swept with a firearm that's locked open with no mag. I understand firearm safety, but DAMN, when you ghasp and jump back 3 feet, you're putting more people in danger than the unloaded firearm is...

Nothing really bothers me though. When I do go shooting, it is always with someone that I would trust my life with (and is very well versed with firearms). What I tell my shooting partners - If your booger hook ain't on the bang switch, I don't care where the hell you point it. If you happen to "slip" and shoot me, I WILL shoot back...

Just my .02....

-Dave

Or fall dead.

 

[Renegade]

Anyone violating the basic three gun safety rules REALLY ticks me off!!!

When I was at Sherburne on Good Friday, I casually glanced down to the other end of the firing line and was staring down the barrel of a .22 rifle that some little kid (5-years-old or so) was holding. I was about to say something when he put it down, but his daddy never even saw it happen.

 

[LA_Huntsman]

OH REALLY... Please elaborate on how this is physically possible

It's like trying to tell a cop "I wasn't trying to speed, the gas pedal was just pushing itself!!" (insert Toyota Prius joke )

This is just silly! Everyone knows a Prius isn't able to break the speed limit!

People who think they're above following simple safety rules...

Again... play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

 

[oleheat]

OH REALLY... Please elaborate on how this is physically possible

Some Japanese Nambu pistols made during WW2 had an exposed sear, and if it was touched.........most honorable *BANG* san....



Seriously, I think he's just saying he doesn't like a muzzle pointed his way....Can't say I blame him.

 

[James Cannon]

Anyone violating the basic three gun safety rules REALLY ticks me off!!!

When I was at Sherburne on Good Friday, I casually glanced down to the other end of the firing line and was staring down the barrel of a .22 rifle that some little kid (5-years-old or so) was holding. I was about to say something when he put it down, but his daddy never even saw it happen.

I remember the first time biggin came to Sherburne. I was telling him how I haven't ever been flagged on the range, or had anyone pointing guns downrange and/or messing with rifles while the line was cold. That day he met me at the range we both got a loaded lever gun pointed at us by some hunter who wouldn't listen to "GOING COLD!" and wasn't wearing ear-pro.

One pet peave I have is people that bring kids to the range WITHOUT EAR PRO for them. Holy crap you piece of failure parents... some people bring freakin' .50BMG rifles to that range. Then there's people with crazy muzzle devices that make their rifles pop LOUD! I carry extra packs of ear plugs in my bag even though I have electronic ear pro... just for kids like that. I've handed out ear pro dozens of times, glaring at the "parent" the whole time.

 

[Baldrik78]

People who let slides slam closed on an empty chamber. Doubly so if it's one of my pistols.

 

[03protege]

People who let slides slam closed on an empty chamber. Doubly so if it's one of my pistols.

If heard this one debated endlessly whether or not it does any damage. I guess your on the side that it does.

 

[Sin-ster]

People who let slides slam closed on an empty chamber. Doubly so if it's one of my pistols.

Yeah, this was going to be mine.

As far as I'm concerned, the slide stop is for emergency use only. If I've got two hands, it ain't getting used.

 

[sonanth]

Slide stop, not slide release.

 

[leVieux]

Geniuses who get a minimum wage job in a gun shop and then think and act as though they are a combo Col. Askins, Robert Ruark, Massad Ayoub, & John Browning re-incarnate.

They offer stupid, unrequested "advice" on all things firearm and expect the customer to be "wow' ed".

Then, they want to argue about some arcane detail.

That's my "pet peeve".

leVieux

Sorry, I forgot Jack O'Connor & Grits Gresham, too.

 

[DAVE_M]

Trigger discipline.
Magazines are not clips.
I pronounce it "carbeen", deal with it!
People not checking if the firearm has a round in the chamber, then waving it everywhere.
If you have checked it and it's clear, feel free to wave it around.
Anti-Gun people saying firearms are evil. I'm not all for homosexuality, but you don't see me saying I hate gays.
People that want a certain firearm because it was in a movie and that's why it's the best gun ever.
Fanboys, especially you Glock people. I like Glocks, but damn... you people are nuts.

 

[oleheat]

Trigger discipline.
Magazines are not clips.
I pronounce it "carbeen", deal with it!
People not checking if the firearm has a round in the chamber, then waving it everywhere.
If you have checked it and it's clear, feel free to wave it around.
Anti-Gun people saying firearms are evil. I'm not all for homosexuality, but you don't see me saying I hate gays.
People that want a certain firearm because it was in a movie and that's why it's the best gun ever.
Fanboys, especially you Glock people. I like Glocks, but damn... you people are nuts.

You Glock people?

Now, don't you think that's a little insensitive?

 

[Baldrik78]

If heard this one debated endlessly whether or not it does any damage. I guess your on the side that it does.

Whether it does damage or not is really irrelevant...it might as well be finger nails on a chalk board to me. Mall ninjas who have watched Commando one too many times who just love to hear the sound it makes

/shudder

 

[DAVE_M]

You Glock people?

Now, don't you think that's a little insensitive?

lol, you know what I mean. Same goes for the "1911 people, SIG people, H&K people."

To be honest, I like all firearms... I just don't like the prices for some of them

 

[Kraut]

In being picked up for examination by me, Mr. Anal-retentive-gunshow-table-operator-guy, the rifle you have for sale laying flat upon the table with it's bolt clearly open with no magazine present and bright orange zip ties securing the action will in some way, shape, or form "sweep" someone present among the huge Saturday crowd. Every one of them is laying there sweeping you as you walk around behind the table, dumbass. Unless you are going to rack your wares vertically and provide table-top space for me to lay on my back and point straight up at the ceiling, stifle your douchebaggery. Then again, falling imaginary bullets impossibly fired from action-restricted firearms might theoretically kill you, too. It's a gun show, not a scene from "The Terminator." Get over yourself and your Zen-master discipline. I could understand if you turned around and I was using you as an aiming reference, smiling big and telling my buddy "I got him cold!", but if I'm just in the act of shouldering the rifle and raising the muzzle to sight on a reference point on the opposite wall, no cheek weld, finger outside the trigger guard, and above-noted precautions emplaced by you still present and not interfered with, SHUT THE FU@K UP and let me fingerbang your product in peace!

 

[Leadslugga]

In my time working gun shows/gun store, I always thought it was funny how you are trained not to sweep the customer when you take the gun out of the case, but while lying in the case, all the guns are pointed right at the customer's crotch.

That being said, I always check the chamber of any gun I hand to anyone, even if I know it was unloaded when I put it back in the case 5 minutes ago. Even though I haven't worked in a gun shop/gun show for some years now, I still check the chamber of any gun I hand to everyone, even showing a friend my own personal gun that I know is unloaded, just in case, and also so that they know I'm not handing them a loaded gun.

 

[smith625]

I was mainly referring to handguns, but this is where faulty equipment comes into play. Buy a Lorcin and toss it on the ground - I can guarantee that it will go off. Try doing it with a Glock...

If you've got a gun that just "goes off", and you still chose to take it shooting, you pretty much get what you deserve...

As far as the shotty going off that was it's last day i used it.

 

[lsu fan]

always[/I] check the chamber of any gun I hand to anyone, even if I know it was unloaded when I put it back in the case 5 minutes ago. Even though I haven't worked in a gun shop/gun show for some years now, I still check the chamber of any gun I hand to everyone, even showing a friend my own personal gun that I know is unloaded, just in case, and also so that they know I'm not handing them a loaded gun.

+1

Except for specific situations... I believe you should always check a gun before you hand it to someone, and handing it to them with the action open is just another step towards safety as it allows everyone to be sure that the firearm is unloaded.

But... I don't care how many times you've checked a gun to make sure it's unloaded, ALWAYS treat it like it's loaded. I don't like having any muzzle pointed in my direction.

You can never be too careful...