I own my own shooting range and teach CCW classes and work with a lot of military personnel headed over to the sand box. One of the things I preach 1000s of times is NEVER put your real guns and ammunition in the same place as your practice ammunition! Now my practice weapons are blue guns identical to my real weapons but blue plastic. Me and my wife were doing weapons retention and takeaway drills. We stopped to take a break and when we restarted I picked up my real gun because I had set my blue gun on the same table! When she attacked me and I drew my real gun and was micro seconds away from shooting her!! Then once at home I had just got back from the range and was going to clean my weapon. I set it on the table in my basement and decided I wanted to do some laser training yet. We have laser training Guns that are identical to our real Guns and have laser targets through out our house. She came home and called me upstairs to help her. I set that training gun on the same table. When I came back down you can guess what gun I picked up!! There is a hole in the wall to always remind me how quick it can go bad !!
"Familiarity breeds contempt" We can all do with some reminding! Thank you for manning up and sharing this with us! this thread may just make the difference to help the next guy double check when he should. I had an accidental discharge one time, no one was hurt or even close, but it shook me up and was an eye opener for sure. All the safety, all the double checks, all the time are worth it.
A friend of mine fumbled a cylinder changing from 22 mag to 22lr when the cylinder hit the ground it breeced on a rock the 22lr went off unattached too the revolver and shot him self through the knee could have been one of his kids beside him betwwen the eyes you can't be too careful if it can happen it will
