Deputy Swan:
Posted on 08/30/2009 12:10:48 PM PDT by Ja7430
lawyers... they love to ruin this once great country
“...claiming that the gun maker failed to warn users that simply removing the clip did not render the gun safe.”
Sounds like some television lawyer speak to me.
IOW WTF!
My home defense gun is a revolver (unloaded but accessible). Simple to check to see if it is loaded or not. Autos have the round in the chamber issue. Teenagers if they happen to pick up a pistol and if they decide to play with it, will think they “unloaded” the weapon by pulling the magazine out, and pull the trigger. This is where in the dumb scenario, a semi auto will come back to haunt the careless one. Children by nature are foolish, therefore if you want the safest gun design in the house, I opt for the revolver. I do agree with all the poster, parents should teach their children about guns and gun handling.
Treat all guns as if they are loaded. Never point a gun at anything you are not willing to destroy. Keep your finger out of the trigger guard and off the trigger until you have a target in your sights that you are willing to destroy. When making the weapon "safe", be sure to open the action and remove any rounds that might be loaded in the chamber.
Every single one of these warnings appears, in one form or another in every safety manual accompanying every gun I have ever purchased. Not that it matters to the Tort Pimps.
That’s a very good point. Very few people understand that a blow to the head which renders one unconscious, will normally cause brain damage.
This case should be thrown out. A Beretta 92FS does not use a clip.
Deputy Swan:
If you don't know how your gun works, maybe you should get rid of it.
keep your firearms locked up away from your children.
That should never be any rule number. What good is a gun locked up? And if your kids never learn how to use them then the kid is at risk when he encounters a weapon that you have no control over (the neighbor's house, a friend, a kid at school with one in his locker). This is the tradgedy of this whole story; untrained kid kills his friend because, no doubt, his parents kept their guns away from the kid. If the kid who was killed had been trained, he would have known that the the gun wasn't unloaded. The the real #2 rule is that you NEVER EVER point a gun at anything you don't intend to destroy. The OP's comment is naive. My point is train the kid. Then you can properly stow your weapons where they are accessible for defense, not locked up. I could never forgive myself if someone broke in and raped my daughters while my firearms were locked in a nearby cabinet. I train them, so they have a fighting chance.
I have over 30 firearms and can't remember a feature on ONE of them?
Are you for real?
Maybe there should be a short universal warning label saying simply “NOT INTENDED FOR USE BY SOMEONE STUPID ENOUGH TO INJURE THEMSELVES WITH IT!” Just put the same label on everything. How do you go about defeating THAT label in court?
Please be consistent.
I was taught that that was rule #1.
Yup. I shoot all 27 of mine.
Swan is being sued, but he is a deputy and a corrections guy, no money there. Beretta is the cash cow they are looking for. Sorry scum, profiting over the childs death.
(golf clap)
These came straight out of my concealed carry training. What am I being inconsistent about?
You said there should not be rule numbers and then proceded to list a rule number.
You need to reread what I said more carefully. I said that locking up your guns away from your kids should not be any rule of any number.
Done. However, leaving weapons with unsupervised youngsters is not smart. Even trained adults make mistakes when handling guns.
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