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About LinkBacksJust curious - how many people have a truly safe direction to orient the muzzle at home when clearing (i.e. a kevlar pad, sand bucket, etc)?
Matt
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Yes - Sand bucket or similar
Yes - Kevlar pad or similar
Yes - other
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Just curious - how many people have a truly safe direction to orient the muzzle at home when clearing (i.e. a kevlar pad, sand bucket, etc)?
Matt
Battle Plan (n) - a list of things that aren't going to happen if you are attacked.
Blame it on Sixto - now that is a viable plan.
The Floor?
No but a sand bucket would be good.
Noli nothis permittere te terere
Lord, Grant me a good sword and no need to use it.
Array
I live in an underground house with only one exposed wall. I guess you could say I have 5 safe directions.
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My house is a twin, built with solid masonry on all sides. Unless I'm pointing the gun towards a window or door, if in the unlikely event a discharge should occur, a pistol round will be stopped by the exteriour wall in that direction (twin is split by a rather thick solid concrete dividing wall). Ditto with shotguns. Rifle fire might go through a brick wall, but I've yet to need to load live rounds into a rifle at home for that to really be a concern; in any case, when pulling the trigger intentionally to decock the rifle, I aim it towards the floor (solid concrete foundation/basement).
Discretion is the better part of valour; and a virtue beyond reproach.
Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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I live in an apartment, so pretty much every direction would be unsafe unless I do something about it. I've got a sandbag that I use for dry fire practice and taking down my Glock.
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I'm sure there is something available commercially like the clearing barrels we used in the military. I remember them being very solid metal, and probably filled with Kevlar or something. Maybe something similar could be built homemade?
"Naked and Starving as They are We Cannot Enough Admire the Incomparable Patience and Fidelity of the Soldiery" – George Washington, Valley Forge, 1777.
I have to go through some recent magazines but I do remember a product that is a Kevlar mat that you can take with you and use to aim your gun at while clearing it. I could swear it is named something like Aim Here or Point here or similar but I can't find it in google
You have to make the shot when fire is smoking, people are screaming, dogs are barking, kids are crying and sirens are coming.
Randy Cain.
Ego will kill you. Leave it at home.
Signed: Me!
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It's called Safe Direction.Originally Posted by Miggy
My home was built in 1910. It is built like a doggone fortress.
The interior walls are heavy nearly 1" thick plaster over lathe interior - really odd 3.5" X 8" wall studs with "blown in" Rock Wool Insulation and then all of the outside walls are 14 to 16 inch thick hand hewn mortared stone...so I just use any outside wall.
No problem w/ penetration through my walls.
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I just aim at the dog.
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I guess if I cleared my guns I could just clear it into my bed. Being a bachelor don't have a real need to have any emty guns (other than .22's and my .30-06) the rest are working guns. The 12 gauge and the zombie invasion rifles I keep with an empty chamber in a locked safe.
"[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons.
They are left in full possession of them."
Zacharia Johnson (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,25 June 1778)"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." ~Alexander Hamilton
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"A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master." -- George Washington
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I do hope that was a poor attempt at humor.
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The floor, on a ground-floor home with crawl space. While it'll make a hole, it won't take out a neighbor. Not exactly what you were getting at, I'm sure, but there it is. No, I don't have a formal, commercially-sold, bullet-absorbing backstop or unit for firing/clearing. But, yes I treat the floor as the safe direction and clear accordingly.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense.
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: The Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
NRA, GOA, OFF, ACLDN.
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I aim at the floor.
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill
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