Stop Touching It!

[Kirk Freeman]

Stop touching it.

Stop looking for excuses to play with your pistol. Leave it alone in the holster. No, I don't care if you are in the bathroom, or just want to show everyone how cool you are because you have a gun, or you have to "unload eet in the parkin' lawt".

Just leave it the heck alone.

Stop touching it like a raccoon washing an apple slice.

Pistol discharges before Obama speech at Arlington National Cementary.

Oh, yes, and guns do go bang without fingers on triggers.

Oopsie at Traction Control

 

[churchmouse]

Been a while Kirk. Good time for a reminder.

 

[LANShark42]

Mom used to tell me the same thing...

 

[churchmouse]

Mom used to tell me the same thing...

Not the same "It".....the "IT" you are referring to leads to early visits to the obstetrician........or so I have heard.......

 

[Kirk Freeman]

People touch guns to confirm that they are real and get themselves in real trouble.

Leave it alone. Leave it in the holster.

 

[beararms1776]

I agree. There's absolutely no reason to fondle a holstered weapon.

 

[jsharmon7]

I'd like to see Kirk go around slapping hands with a ruler when someone fondles it.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

24 oz. framing hammer. They will never learn unless it hurts.

I will be carrying one Saturday at the Indy1500. I usually have to kill 10-15 Cletii (or is it Cletuses?) a show as the multiple violators do not stand up well to the second pummeling.

 

[Excalibur]

Ok, I touch my holstered gun every time I get in and out of a car because I need to adjust it. I don't take it out of the holster and play with it.

 

[churchmouse]

I do touch mine when I have to pull up my pants. Getting a bit large in the middle....maybe suspender time for this old guy.

 

[Aaron1776]

This really is a good reminder.
Two types of people have NDs.

Those untrained who don't know any better, and those who are trained and become familiar with them. Your risk of a ND goes up exponentially if you carry and dry practice a lot. It doesn't help that typically we all love our guns, and think they're super cool. Thus, set yourself up for success.

I found that to get my "needed gun touching" in for a given day, I just make sure that my "touching" is 100% productive. I have my 20-30 minute dry practice session where I unload the gun, put all live ammo/ loaded mags into another room, hang the target, load colored snap caps to verify I've got nothing dry in the chamber, set my timer, and do some training. Then when the timer goes off I say to myself "dry practice is over, I am done". Then I take my target down and put the gun back to its proper place. Otherwise, I do not let myself touch the gun unless I'm "gunning up" to leave the house, cleaning it, or shooting it at the range.

I also don't trust myself to not fondle the gun around the house, so I don't leave a gun on my hip when I'm at home. I have strategic stash points that are out of sight. In public it's unacceptable to have your gun in your hand, so drawing it out of the holster isn't an option.

This has eliminated as much of the risk of me being a moron as possible, while improving my skills greatly AND getting my "needed" touching in.

 

[goinggreyfast]

Even at Meet & Greets???

 

[Excalibur]

Unless I really need to take a ****, I wouldn't even need to go number 2 and risk taking off my gun in a restroom. So unless I am with a gun friendly buddy in his gun friendly home and want to show him my gun (which I will clear before handing it over to him), my gun never comes out unless I need to defend myself.

 

[minuteman32]

That is one of biggest gripes about no carry locations! The only time a gun goes bang is when someone is handling it.

 

[JettaKnight]

24 oz. framing hammer. They will never learn unless it hurts.

I will be carrying one Saturday at the Indy1500. I usually have to kill 10-15 Cletii (or is it Cletuses?) a show as the multiple violators do not stand up well to the second pummeling.

Cletodae.

It's Greek in origin.

 

[CathyInBlue]

But it feels so good down inside my pant— Oh… You meant my sidearm.

Nevermind.

 

[jerryv]

But it feels so good down inside my pant— Oh… You meant my sidearm.

Nevermind.

If you touch it too much, it could go off ..

 

[churchmouse]

If you touch it too much, it could go off ..

Or go blind..............

 

[pig957]

Stop touching it.

Stop looking for excuses to play with your pistol. Leave it alone in the holster. No, I don't care if you are in the bathroom, Just leave it the heck alone.

Stop touching it like a raccoon washing an apple slice.


My wife keeps telling me tha same thing!

 

[Erich]

Cletodae.