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How to check before carry if can't get to range

3K views 27 replies 23 participants last post by  cmdrdredd 
ArmyCop is making a point that at the very least folks should check to make certain that the semi-auto hand cycles and that there is an operational primer strike.


Using the same argument that some of you folks have been making...you would need to remove the bullet and open up or carefully weigh every simgle cartridge to make absolutely certain that there is propellent in there because every single cartridge in the box is a technical crapshoot.
 
Playing The Devil's Advocate Here.

Here Is The Scenario:

A woman that you work with is married to an extremely abusive man.
He has been drinking & also doing drugs (mostly Crack) and has been violent & physically abusive to her on a few past occasions.

The marriage has gone completely downhill - recently from bad to LOTS worse and she has no choice but, to file for a divorce and get out and away from the relationship.

He is a "control freak" & does not take that news very well (at all) and threatens to kill her and their baby.

She decides that she really needs to somehow be able to protect herself and the child and so she goes to the gun shop and buys a firearm.

The clerk in the gun store is decently "gun savvy" and "clues her in" on basic firearm safety and shows her how to load the magazine and operate the safety...etc.

She is a very responsible female and has every intention of doing things the right way and while she is in the gun shop...she signs up for NRA classes/instruction and "range time" that will begin in two weeks.

So....she basically knows how to "work the gun" but, has never actually fired it.

In the meantime she has filed a "Protection From Abuse" order against her crazed hubby...hoping that will keep him from stalking and harassing her. Which he has been doing.

She is sitting in her vehicle in the driveway after just having strapped her baby into the child seat and judiciously locked her car doors when her "spazzed out" hubby (who just got served with the PFA Order)...and went totally ballistic over it...shows up blocking her in her driveway...and then smashes in her drivers side window with a baseball bat while screaming that he is now going to make good on his promise to kill her and HIS baby.

OK...Now The Big Question...Should she have left the gun in the house and well hidden in the closet because she has not put 500 rounds through it yet...and (for sure) she does not know if it is hitting two inches low and to the left at 25 yards?

Or would she be better off if she had it with her?
 
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