How NOT to Clean Your Gun

[Ken Ford]

Who are you talking about?

Keep up now… LOL

 

[Mister Heavyhand]

Depends on how old you are........

Yep, so much pressure with the coveralls on. It's a mad scramble when the call comes.

Btw, bought a 22lr bolt rifle with a "custom" trigger, jacked a round it to check the feed, closed the bolt and "bang", shot the safe. "Always point your gun in a safe direction."

Buy dummy rounds to check function.

 

[The Old Jaybird]

I know accidents happen.. but how do you not drop the mag, and clear before you clean... hand to someone.

I mean it's like taking a pis*... you don't forget to unzip and pull it out before you start piss*ng...

that's proper procedure for young whippersnappers, us old timers forget the unzip now and then.

 

[basstracker89]

Yep, so much pressure with the coveralls on. It's a mad scramble when the call comes.

Btw, bought a 22lr bolt rifle with a "custom" trigger, jacked a round it to check the feed, closed the bolt and "bang", shot the safe. "Always point your gun in a safe direction."

Buy dummy rounds to check function.

Been there too. Worked outside for 40+yrs

 

[kodis556]

I bought a weapon from a individual in Nevada who shipped it through his FFL to my FFL. When my FFL open the box and checked the chamber there was a live round in it with a loaded mag. Needles to say my FFL was very PISSED!

I can't tell you how many screaming orange "empty chamber" flags I have laying around that get used all the time. Took a gun in recently and it's amazing how appreciative the LGS is to see one in use.

 

[JSoko]

he probably got tired of her music

 

[GFB]

For those of you who served in the military, how common are ND's there?

They happen. Some units do more training than others. Some people get issued a weapon they’re not familiar with. Some people do something stupid. And anyone is capable of making a mistake, especially when they’re sleep deprived. I always associated units that had a keen fetish for clearing barrels as more likely to ND, but that’s subjective bias.

Probably the most common is someone clearing a weapon like they have so many times before that it is an automatic process and, for whatever reason, the sequence in their brain misfires and they do something out of order.

 

[Just Plain Bill]

I was taught young that all guns are always loaded and that even if you unload them they will load themselves when you ain't looking. I know it sounds dumb but it has taught me to check and recheck all firearms.

 

[GodBlessTheUSA]

For those of you who served in the military, how common are ND's there?

I moved from the Army Field Artillery to the Medical Corps. In the latter, they'd take a bus or two full of docs, dentists, nurses, etc to a pistol range, hand out M92s and expect people to qualify without even a safety or familiarization class.

I took it upon myself to teach some basic firearm safety and the basic operation of the Beretta. Luckily we didn't have any "NDs" but we did have some people shoot about a meter in front of themselves. I'm saying those were NDs, even if the range officer didn't.

 

[alex4922]

Drop the mag and rack the slide, point in safe direction and pull the trigger...oops..hole in ceiling. Some guns don't have extractors. 🙄