Gun safety

Growing up the number one rule to gun safety was taught by my family. Everyone has different ways of teaching gun safety on how to carry a gun and what to do and not do.

There was never a problem following the rules of tradition on how handle a gun. When I was 12 my first guns was a 20 gauge and 12 gauge shotgun. The beginning steps to handle my guns were to always keep the guns pointed at the ground away from my foot unloaded or not. The Safety always had to be on just in case of a loaded gun going off by its own.

The things taught to me were simple, made sense and were the values of quality safety procedures. I am not saying having a loaded gun was always in my book. However when traveling to hunt or hunting in the woods having a loaded gun tucked by my side in the cab of a vehicle was easier accessible when game had come upon the roadway off to the sides in the trees of remote wilderness.

As long as I followed every step to assure the barrels of my guns weren't pointed at anyone or anything but the floor or ground with the safety on there could be no foul play.

With shotguns, rifles and pistols, no gun of such is good without it loaded and ready to go. Gun control rooted if you knew how to control a loaded gun like it was a weapon capable of causing lethal injury. This is why I had no problem with guns growing up. No accidents.

When around family events in public or at home my guns were always unloaded, and my ammunition was always near by while still my safety's were still on. I always had faith with what my family taught me about gun truths.

I looked at guns like they were well more capable of just causing harm to people but capable of causing harm to myself, so I always acted accordingly with the laws. My family always made sure I knew the rules of guns and always reminded me to follow what they taught me so I didn't cause an accident.

Some point of views on gun control were that guns were not meant to be pointed at the ground, because if they went off without your control they could recklessly reflect into another person or yourself. Which I took that into account many times in different situations.

There are times to post or point a barrel in the sky and at the ground.

Take for an example you are walking along a dirt road 2 hours from human civilization, hunting and you point your gun while walking from your side down a draw at the ground. There is some exceptions of course. What if it goes off and hits a deer or something. Unintentionally causing lethal injury or death. Makes sense. Pointing the guns at the ground takes up account wether you are brave enough to accept the consequences that may arise from the action to do so. Trying to be safe secure and willing to protect innocent life from injury by the changes of a gun going off and being stuffed by dirt.

In many scenarios actually most of the time a gun pointed at the floor in a truck is much safer than a gun on a back rack. Or pointed to the ceiling. Only because if a gun tips over loaded while driving pointing to the ceiling it can go off at your head. So, there is a time and place to point a barrel towards the sky and not the ground, it's just not in the cab with your friends or family and it's not on a rack pointed at traffic that goes and comes by you on the road.

Often times transferring the gun from a cab to remain pointed from the floor to the ground outside of the cab makes common sense. On the other hand how to safely remove a gun pointed at the floor of your cab to, barrel up and away from the ground pointed in the sky is another thing.

When handing a gun over to another individual, it's common sense to point the gun in the sky above your heads, and the one who receives it from you chest to chest is to side drop the barrel away from people and buildings or cars, back to be pointed to the ground.

walking with a loaded gun or unloaded gun pointed at the sky is a barrel without a back drop. It becomes uncontrolled, one wrong move of your arms and hands the gun can slip into the site of another person. It would most definitely be a barrel waving loaded or unloaded upon accident, at a person. Which is not good practice.

When transferring a gun to another chest, the guns appropriate time to be pointed at the sky. Would only be appropriate or reasonable because of the split second of the gun being capable of going off at the ground in front of you when closing the space between you and the other person. Making the reflecting tendency much larger and dangerous in close quarter capacity. Whereas a gun pointed at the sky during its transition to another's possession eliminates that capacity of danger within the closing space of approaching one another to transition the gun.

Sling carry, cradle carry, shoulder carry, two-handed or ready carry are risky carrying techniques believe this or not. The best way to carry in the best fashion of safety is trall carrying. Because the hand has control under the rifle in the arm pit, it becomes a better alternative to safety other than the elbow or side carry where the gun is not fitted in the hand but lose in the pit of the arms.

Let's take for example, image (1) is a hazard, the barrel points freely at ground with human body levels. The barrel of image (1) points directly at the head of image (2) being the same size man in the image.

Image (2) is the example of a barrel that can lean or slide off the shoulder into another man, if he slips or falls.

Image (3) shows the barrel pointed at the foot of image (2) at equal distance. If image (3) was to be a good idea to perform, distance in the hunting spectrum from each other would be the alternative to protecting each other from being shot in the foot if gun goes off, but instead hitting the dirt. Where as anything causing the gun in image (1) and (2) to fall off the shoulder or going off, there is a higher likelihood of someone being shot than image (3)

Image (4) has a likelihood of a man's gun to sling or pivot forward and falling off the shoulder, going off into the guy behind him.

Image (5) shows without distance the legs of the lead man in front of him can be compromised by shot, if fall by accident or gun mis malfunctioning.

Image (6) shows a standard of stationary transition while not walking. Imagine (6) would give the best route for gun transition if the gun was to be transitioned during that prop of safety. Closing the gap of the closing capacity in handing a rifle to another man pointed at the ground risking mis malfunctioning mechanism in the gun to cause explosive dangers toward their legs.

It's simple a barrel waving in the sky when not being stationary transitioned into another's arms can lead to lethal or deadly consequences far quicker at the head or torso of another man or women than a barrel pointed at the ground with created distance from personnel.

All methods are exceptional, however you chose what method best fits your desires to conduct safety.

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