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Four Rules of Firearms Handling - by Jeff
Cooper. |
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Rule
#1 - All guns are always loaded.
The only exception to this occurs when you
have a firearm in your hands and you have
personally unloaded it for checking. As soon
as you put it down, Rule #1 applies again. |
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Rule
#2 - Never let the muzzle cover anything you
are not ready to destroy.
You may not wish to destroy it, but you must
be clear in your mind that you are quite ready
to if you let that muzzle cover the target.
To allow a firearm to point at another human
being is a deadly threat, and should always
be treated as such. |
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Rule
#3 - Keep your finger off the trigger until
your sights are on the target.
This we call the Golden Rule because its violation
is responsible for about 80 percent of the
firearms disasters we read about. |
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Rule
#4 - Be sure of your target and what is beyond
it.
You never shoot at anything until you have
positively identified it. You never fire at
a shadow, or a sound, or a suspected presence.
You shoot only when you know absolutely what
you are shooting at and what is beyond it. |
