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Old May 6th, 2009, 12:42 AM   #12
heylin
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Safety is a 2 way street

1) You should always lock open the slide and check clear before storing and if you forgot that then your backup safety is before handing over any firearm to another person.

Your mistake

2) Anyone accepting a firearm also needs to confirm it is indeed unloaded. Just in case you forget to.

Customers mistake

Failing all this provided the firearm is always pointed in a safe direction then the risk of injury or death is close to nil.

A typical trip to the range and back home for me is

1) remove from safe, check unloaded and box
2) remove from box at range check unloaded and bench
3) check unloaded, place in box, take home
4) remove from box check unloaded, place in safe
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