What was live ammo doing there!
Forgot to clear the chamber prior to loading his snap caps?
“What was live ammo doing there!”
Asking myself the same question.
“What was live ammo doing there!”
He didn’t know the ammo was live, and he didn’t know the gun was loaded!/s;)
“What was live ammo doing there!”
This is actually an interesting point. In my first class and my renewal class everybody had a box of ammo sitting right there on our desks. Difference is in the first class the instructor went around the room and examined everyone’s weapon for being safe and unloaded. In my renewal we were asked not to get our weapons out until we entered the firing range. Instructors in both cases were carrying what I presume were loaded firearms but neither displayed their guns, they just told us they were carrying.
I just figure every gun is loaded. I read an interesting post over at Mad Ogre where he was talking about somebody bringing an old shotgun into the store and everybody who handled it pumped the action to verify it was empty, until the last guy who handled it did that and a shell popped out of the rusty old magazine tube and chambered. Nobody realized there was a round up in the tube that was stuck in place and didn’t load the first few times they cycled the action. That’s scary, and something you really have to think about.
Evening SWAMPSNIPER,
One of the things you have to do when ya get a CCW is actually fire a weapon in front of and instructor. Demonstrating that you actually do have an idea of how the damn thing works.
This guy just wasn’t that good of an instructor quite obviously.
No kidding. This course was being held at a church? If they were at a firing range, that's one thing. But c'mon! This instructor should no longer be so.
inexcusable stupidity and negligence
I'd imagine that a concealed handgun instructor would have a Concealed handgun license. Empty gun is a bludgeon at best.
But of course he should be all prepped for the course and unloaded the weapon if he'd going to use it as a "prop", *before* the students are allowed in to the classroom.