01-15-2015, 04:43 AM
Always VISUALLY check to make sure that the firearm is unloaded. My father is deputy County Attorney, and I've heard some pretty gnarly stories about unintentional discharges. One of the worst was a Sheriff's Deputy who racked the slide a few times on a pistol, but didn't visually clear the chamber. He was going to break it down to clean it, and when he pulled the trigger to release the slide a round that hadn't been picked up was fired. It went through the palm of the deputy's hand and into the upper thigh of a judge that was with him, barely missing his femoral artery.