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rbsivley
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Personal Protection Firearm.
rbsivley
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Where's your's and can you use it in a moments notice? I was reading some older post on here about firearms at home, in vehicles, cocked and locked or not even loaded. One person was afraid to charge his pistol without pointing it towards his bed.
I wear my pistol always when I legally can such as the court house, etc. It lays on my nightstand at night and on the lavatory for other business.
I've been around guns my whole life. I understand the danger of firearms in the wrong hands and some of the people that wrote in this forum might need some serious training.
If I was afraid of a firearm or unsure of it's operation I certainty wouldn't carry it or have on in the house.
About 6 months before the Reserve unit I was assigned to got deployed for Iraq I noticed the Soldiers on the range were not very familiar with their weapon. We were a QM Battalion HQ and didn't have a lot of weapons training. As the BN Logistics Operation NCO I had the bulk of the personnel in my section. I came up with the idea to issues the Soldiers their individual assigned weapon during drill whether we went to the range or not. It lasted about 2 drills. all the Officers whined to the Commander and it stopped.
We got deployed in Feb 03 to Ft. Drum to get "trained up" before we go. Every Soldier was issued their assigned weapon. First couple of weeks, we were there 9, they were leaving their weapon everywhere. Mess Hall, PX, in a vehicle unsecured. When we get to Iraq and live ammo is issued the negiligent discharges began. I won't get into those.
The point of my paper is if you're going to own a firearm get familiar with it. Don't carry it in fear. Carry with confidence.
Whew.
I wear my pistol always when I legally can such as the court house, etc. It lays on my nightstand at night and on the lavatory for other business.
I've been around guns my whole life. I understand the danger of firearms in the wrong hands and some of the people that wrote in this forum might need some serious training.
If I was afraid of a firearm or unsure of it's operation I certainty wouldn't carry it or have on in the house.
About 6 months before the Reserve unit I was assigned to got deployed for Iraq I noticed the Soldiers on the range were not very familiar with their weapon. We were a QM Battalion HQ and didn't have a lot of weapons training. As the BN Logistics Operation NCO I had the bulk of the personnel in my section. I came up with the idea to issues the Soldiers their individual assigned weapon during drill whether we went to the range or not. It lasted about 2 drills. all the Officers whined to the Commander and it stopped.
We got deployed in Feb 03 to Ft. Drum to get "trained up" before we go. Every Soldier was issued their assigned weapon. First couple of weeks, we were there 9, they were leaving their weapon everywhere. Mess Hall, PX, in a vehicle unsecured. When we get to Iraq and live ammo is issued the negiligent discharges began. I won't get into those.
The point of my paper is if you're going to own a firearm get familiar with it. Don't carry it in fear. Carry with confidence.
Whew.
Randy
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If I am out and about, I am armed, if I'm home and need a firearm, I am seconds away from one...
I have had conversations before while still asleep. I read a article by a Dr once about people shooting a spouse or kid before they even wake up. He suggested leaving the chamber empty. If you are awake enough to chamber a tound, you are awake enough to recognize the target.
Made sense to me.
And nothing is getting shot until I have target identification but I want the time between me waking up and having a loaded firearm in my had to be 0 seconds. THEN I’ll figure out next steps…
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Im pretty sure that I can get up from a sound sleep, and safely handle my pistols.
I will sit around sometimes, and hold one in my hand, and load a round into the chamber. I have a Colt made 1911 and a S&W .40, and to me they are pretty simple to figure out.