Just goes back to what my mother told me as a child. “Empty guns are in some ways more dangerous than a loaded gun”.
"Therefore, just the same, don’t you meddle with old unloaded firearms; they are the most deadly and unerring things that have ever been created by man. You don’t have to take any pains at all with them; you don’t have to have a rest, you don’t have to have any sights on the gun, you don’t have to take aim, even. No, you just pick out a relative and bang away, and you are sure to get him. A youth who can’t hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three quarters of an hour, can take up an old empty musket and bag his grandmother every time, at a hundred."
-Mark Twain
The first rule of gun safety I was taught,”no gun is ever unloaded, treat them all as if they are loaded”.