No trigger finger discipline

[rugerla1]

Maybe I'm ranting, maybe not. I learned at a VERY young age the firearm safety rules. They are all extremely important. I see people lose muzzle control and it drives me crazy, but the damn finger on the trigger sends me to a whole other place. When its people at the range it is bad enough, but when it is my friends I feel the urge to snap it off! Most of them continue to remind me that they grew up shooting and hate unsafe idiots (insert my mad face here) and I continue to remind them that they may get mad at me, but I don't care...if I see your damb finger on the trigger, I will tell you about it. I have no doubt that they grew up shooting, I've deer hunted with most of them. But I don't think they ever REALLY learned safety. A mistake caused by that kind of carelessness cannot be reversed, and I am really trying to help them learn. I have even had one turn away from the range with a pistol that they are "sure is empty" with the slide closed and finger on the trigger, pointed right at me. I don't know if the checked the chamber and then closed the slide or if the gun went click, and they figured it was done....one ftf could be a life. Whew! Okay, I guess it was a rant!

[K191145]

Keep your booger hook off the bang switch.

I hear ya, I tell anyone I give advice to about firearms and safety to "practice" safe gun handling just as you would practice accuracy or anything else related to firearms. Make safety a "habit", muzzle pointed in a safe direction and finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot your target. Make safety such a habit where you don't have to even think about it, it's automatic. Guns don't discharge by themselves in a gun accident, the trigger is pulled unintentionally.
I'm no firearms expert but you don't have to be to be a safe shooter to be at the range with. Edited July 11, 2013 by K191145

[rugerla1]

Exactly. They actually crack up when I walk back from the targets with the stapler in my hand with my trigger finger pointing straight as an arrow away from the "trigger" of the stapler. I am glad I don't know I'm doing it, that my finger knows when I'm gripping an object that even resembles a gun, it knows what to do. I want them to do the same.