Tally XD

Almost didn't! The customers jaw almost hit the floor when the round ejected. Me? I almost crapped my pants.

Wouldn't and didn't matter in this case. I failed to rack the slide prior to allowing the customer to handle the weapon. While they are nice I guess, I don't trust the tactile indicators completely. Now, I can't trust myself!

It will be with me as well. This was horrible. So mad, angry, embarrassed and scared.

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heylin

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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TerriLi

Ive actually had the reverse happen. I had been carrying my Bersa and went do my weekly check, pop out the mag, rack the slide to eject the round.....nothing, I pull back the slide and look in which is the next step. No round in the chamber......I was about to crap myself. This would have really sucked had I needed it. Then I realized I had cleared the chamber earlier that day do to my visiting a friends house. They have a rule to let me carry in their place, no round in the chamber. I had forgotten to rechamber it. Now ive gotten in the habit of checking every morning now.

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Captain Crunch

Have you spoken to the store owner about this?

Boss or not, his feet should be held to the fire, too.

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And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier.

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Terry

nutz4utwo

Thanks for posting. Always a good reminder.

Janq

This is a very poor business practice on the part of the store owner.
Further he is now _using_ the firearm only to turn around and later sell it to some unsuspecting customer as being 'factory in the box new'.
That is not right.

Double error on the part of the business owner which was the catalyst for this event.

Never mind the error made by _both_ you and the customer as neither of you in your haste thought to check and open the action of the firearm prior to transferring it to each other.
Myself when a person hands me firearm they have not opened the action toward and checked at least visually if not by tactile pinky inspection...that immediately puts me on guard as to question their firearm knowledge set and skills overall.
This is akin to handing over the keys of an automobile to another person taking them from a car that has been left in neutral _and_ with no parking brake actuated, not thinking on their part to apply either.

Be careful.

- Janq

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David in FL

Wow.

Just wow......

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Fartknocker

I feel very confident that the indicator was up, showing that there was a round chambered. But..unless you are familiar with that weapon, you wouldnt know what the indicator is for. Personally I love that feature, and I trust it on my XD. That doesnt stop me from checking though! But we all make mistakes! Thanks for sharing.

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Tally XD

I have carried my XD45 for three years now. I am familiar with the loaded chamber indicator. I am simply saying that I failed to CHECK it and failed to clear the weapon. However, I am not one to trust the indicators 100%.

Opening the slide up to me is what I should have done. I didnt.

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nedrgr21

Something similar happened to me. While preparing for a group of boy scouts coming to the range, me and the RSO were transferring 10/22's from the safe to a wheeled cart. I noticed that all the .22's in the safe had the magazines in the rifles, bolts locked open - not right, but maybe no big deal. After we had a few transferred it began to really not sit well with me and then the thought hit me "wouldn't it be "interesting" to find one loaded". Sure enuf, third magazine had 6 rounds in it. Amazingly, the training center supervisor didn't seem too upset about it - it was his buddy that left the loaded mag in the rifle after a class.