potential "Darwin Award" nominee.

responsible concealed carrry every day is to ban having a round in the chamber of all semi auto. Whether carrying, transporting or storing. Even for cops.

you don't pull the trigger "accidently", as this moron did.

. From 2006-2016, almost 6,885 people in the U.S. died from unintentional shootings. In 2016 alone, there were 495 incidents of accidental firearm deaths.

I have no problem with a "Well Regulated Militia".

at least one of the basic rules of firearm safety was broken.

1. All guns are always loaded.
2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
4. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.

About 10 years ago I was talking to an old guy at a flea market. I noticed a cast on his left hand and asked what happen. He told me he was cleaning his pistol when it went off. Then he told me that he has been a NRA safety instructor for 35 years. It happened to be a Glock. When you drop the magazine, it is pretty easy to forget the one in the chamber, even for highly trained gun owners.

blatent disregard for gun safety. AS a safety instructor, he has even less excuse (not that there really is one) than most.

9 out of 10 do it some if not most of the time. The little kid that finds the hidden one in the house, never.

in safes whenever I'm not home. I do have a single firearm available for self defense while I am at home, but if I had children it would either be in a quick-access safe of some sort, or on my person. I would never leave it simply "hidden".

by an assailant because the gun owner didn't have a round in the chamber. I haven't found any. I have found instances where a person, usually a police officer, was killed when an assailant took control of the gun, which had a round in the chamber, and shot the gun owner. And then there's quite a few cases every year where somebody is killed or injured because there was a round in the chamber and the person with the gun accidentally or negligently pulled the trigger.

Based on what I could find, it appears to me that the evidence shows bad things are more likely to happen to innocent people when there is a round in the chamber then when not and I have yet to find any evidence that suggests that not having a round in the chamber puts the gun owner at great risk.

We wouldn't need seat belts if everyone drove safely.

Single/double action with a decocker, no manual safety. Safe when carried hammer down, as there is a hammer block that only moves if the trigger is pulled through the double action stroke. I have carried this as my "summer carry" for 20+ years with no problem. My winter carry is a SIG 220, 45acp. Same set up with a decocker.

Man shows off is Glock
Man put glock in pocket
Man,s short penis starts leaking
Turns out his glock execute all his future children
Good bye kids.

resulting from a series of poor choices and irresponsible actions.

You could also add legal to safe and responsible of which this fellow went 0-3

I first suggested a .22, but he said he only wanted a single handgun for self-defense. I then said his best bet would be a .357 magnum revolver, but loaded with .38 Specials until he gained more proficiency. Nope, he said, it has to be a semiauto.

All right then, how about a Ruger Security-9 or Glock 19? Simple, reliable...nope. Not "cool" enough, it seems. In the end he buys a Rock Island 1911 .45, one of the least appropriate guns for someone without firearms experience.

Why did he even ask?

The money you save by using .22 ammo can buy you a more powerful handgun in the future.

Of course there is little recoil with a .22 caliber handgun but it’s the recoil of a handgun that can complicate learning how to shoot accurately