Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Check the chamber. That's what was pounded into my head one evening while I ate popcorn in a movie with very realistic gun stuff in it. I think about an Alien who wanted to join the FBI. I love movies with lots of explosions and automatic weapons going off. But will deny it to the very end when questioned. Check the chamber. And I do too. Even while owning no guns. I check anything which remotely resembles a chamber. You can find them everywhere. Cameras have them! On 10/22/13 6:42 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > I know this is OT, but just in case anyone needs advice: Herbert's comment > is pretty close. Protocol is to remove the magazine, eject any round and > lock the slide back. The pistol is then handed butt first, with the muzzle > pointed straight down. The magazine is not reinserted. The idea is that > the muzzle is pointed in a safe direction (true at all times, loaded or > unloaded), and the person taking it can see that the magazine well is empty > and the chamber is empty. This is true of all firearms - action open so an > empty chamber can be verified, magazine or ammunition removed, muzzle > always > pointed in a safe direction. As a radical alternative, there are no doubt > some places where passing a gun around the dinner table is viewed as a > breach of etiquette :). > > Ken > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Herbert > Kanner > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 4:26 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Tina's "Tea Party" reunion propaganda photo > > Something else I should mention. Whenever I picked up an "unloaded" pistol, > even if I had unloaded it minutes before, I would check that it was still > unloaded. > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:22 AM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at > icloud.com> > wrote: > >> An instructional, potentially life saving, sane and sober comment. Thank > you Herbert. >> >> a note off the iPad, George >> >> On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:13 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: >> >>> I'm sure what the "right" way to hand a pistol to someone is, but if I > were handing an "automac pistol" (technically semiautomatic) to someone > over > a dinner table, I would remove the clip ( an only replace it if empty), > work > the slide to eject a shell, if any, from the chamber, and then hand over > the > piece. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/