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In a column called "What I learned in concealed carry class," Bullard, a native Texan and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, wrote:
Perhaps most shocking, though, was the advice we received from a practicing law enforcement officer regarding the storage of firearms: under the bed, preferably loaded. I'm not kidding. Fifty or so families, many of whom we must presume have children in the home, walked out of that classroom with the understanding that the proper way to store your guns was in a location that is within reach of a child, and loaded. No gun safe. No trigger lock.
Bullard also expressed shock in his essay at a slew of questions asked by other people in the class, including, "What if I come home and someone is in my house? Can I take my gun inside and shoot them?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/north-carolina-concealed-carry-handgun_n_4262378.html
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safeinOhio
(34,093 posts)storing, carrying, transporting or processing any gun with a round in the chamber or the hammer resting on a loaded cylinder, might cut fire arm accidents in half. Another common sense law that RKBA people would scream about.
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)In my training notebook, I have several fancy pieces of paper with my name on them. Each certificate shows that I attended a single weekend class. Most come from courses that are literally impossible to flunk. Several say that I’m now an instructor. The strictest ones required me to pass both a tough written test and a high-skills shooting test, but even these simply show that I spent a few days with an instructor and passed a test on that instructor’s material. Although I highly value these certificates—especially the ones that came from excellent master instructors at good schools—not one of them proves, by itself, that I’m qualified to develop my own program as an instructor in my own right.
http://www.corneredcat.com/article/teaching-others/how-to-become-a-firearms-instructor/
safeinOhio
(34,093 posts)About 12 years ago I met a old guy at a flea market. He had a cast on his left hand and I asked what happen. Said he accidentally shot himself while cleaning a pistol. Then he went on to tell me he had been a NRA safety instructor for 36 years.
Lulu Belle
(70 posts)Are designed to be carried that way.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)As with most all modern-era double action revolvers, it has an "action bar" which prevents the hammer from impinging on the firing pin located in the recoil shield. Some old-timers called this the "hammer the hammer" safety. It's been around for generations.
This story is old anti-gun agitprop. Really, how many certified instructors give advice which ignores safe storage in the home?
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)Good question, Ellie.
I'd suggest a program to monitor firearm instructors, similar to the "secret shoppers" used by merchants.
Eleanors38
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gejohnston
(17,502 posts)IOW, not one made by Ruger since 1973.
Double action revolvers on the other hand, it doesn't apply to any made in my lifetime. OK, maybe not Clerke or RG. Any quality DA revolver, even Taurus, has either a hammer block or transfer bar.
Kang Colby
(1,941 posts)A) This article is almost two years old, and has already been discussed in GD back in 2013.
B) Dr. Ty Bullard appears to be a gun control advocate who decided to play "secret shopper" at a state mandated concealed carry course.
C) Other than Dr. Ty Bullard's op-ed, no evidence exists to suggest this actually happened.
In conclusion, this is a two year old article based on what is likely a fabrication from a gun control advocate.
friendly_iconoclast
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