Lichterglanz by Коллектив

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I submit that this linkage can be traced to every segment of defensive guncraft. In the category of gun handling skills, it can produce the desire to dry-practice for hours at a time and, most importantly, the passion to push yourself to the next level of proficiency with your weapon. It is what pushes a student to invest the time and money to acquire the highest ranking he can achieve with his or her weapon of choice, that of Combat Master. It takes months and months of dry practice, live fire, and then passing a grueling and arduous range test to acquire this most prestigious of rankings.

Holding the weapon in your firing-side hand, place the web of your support-side hand against the front and top of the slide. Grip the vertical sides of the slide with your index finger and thumb. Grip very tight with both. The top of the slide should be held securely in that grip. Close down with all the fingers of your support-side hand and press to the rear. Crack the ejection port open about 1⁄4” and inspect for brass or the lack thereof. This gun has a cartridge in the chamber. Release the slide to close shut under its own spring tension.

To me, there is a very obvious distinction here and it may be parsing words, but all weapons are not always loaded. A popular talk show host has a saying that I utilize in my class lectures and writings: Words have meaning and actions have consequences! Think about that for a while, please. When you are cleaning your weapon and have chamber-checked it several times and it is now field-stripped and lying on your bench, is it loaded? Of course not. When you have decided that you need to send your weapon off to a gunsmith for a certain repair job and you have chamber checked it several times, removed the magazine and partially disassembled it, is it loaded?