Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Are You Making Dangerous Mistakes?” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/range-safety/.
Are You Making Dangerous Mistakes?
- Thread starter Mike H.
- Start date
The Night Rider
Professional
Good article.
I used to be on the security team at my church. Once a quarter they would do a two-day training session day one was dry fire day two was live fire and qualifications.
Every quarter when they send out the email telling people that the class was coming up at the head of the email in all caps bolded letters
There Is To Be Absolutely No Live Ammunition In The Training Room
And every month 10 or 15 people would show up for the class and 10 or 12 of them would walk into that training room and unload their loaded guns.
I called them on it one time. The instructor did a safety briefing after everybody had arrived and when he went through his safety briefing he asked if anybody had any concerns. I raised my hand and reminded everybody in that room that the email telling us about the class explicitly stated not to bring any ammunition with you and not to have any in the training room.
Then I picked up somebody's loaded magazine and said "This is not safe."
As soon as I said that one of the guys got all huffy and said that if you're going to carry a gun you need to learn to play by Big Boy rules.
The instructor, the guy who had written the email didn't say anything.
I left the security team very shortly after that
I used to be on the security team at my church. Once a quarter they would do a two-day training session day one was dry fire day two was live fire and qualifications.
Every quarter when they send out the email telling people that the class was coming up at the head of the email in all caps bolded letters
There Is To Be Absolutely No Live Ammunition In The Training Room
And every month 10 or 15 people would show up for the class and 10 or 12 of them would walk into that training room and unload their loaded guns.
I called them on it one time. The instructor did a safety briefing after everybody had arrived and when he went through his safety briefing he asked if anybody had any concerns. I raised my hand and reminded everybody in that room that the email telling us about the class explicitly stated not to bring any ammunition with you and not to have any in the training room.
Then I picked up somebody's loaded magazine and said "This is not safe."
As soon as I said that one of the guys got all huffy and said that if you're going to carry a gun you need to learn to play by Big Boy rules.
The instructor, the guy who had written the email didn't say anything.
I left the security team very shortly after that
