We’re often told that practice makes perfect in all aspects of our life, but when it comes to firearms safety, it can be all too easy to pick up bad habits.
After viewing a video posted to X Monday, we may want to qualify this a little bit: proper practice makes perfect. The video in question is all of 17 seconds – but it should take less than a half-dozen seconds to see just how many basic rules of firearms safety are left by the wayside.
The video depicts about a dozen men, dressed in business casual attire, walking around a bunch of stools like it’s a game of musical chairs. The instructor shouts a count of three, at which point, the men pull their guns and aim them… right at the guy in front of them in most cases.
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They then re-holster their semiautomatic pistols, and the process is repeated as the instructor crosses inside the stools, crossing the circle of walking trainees pulling guns. Again, the men draw their pistols and aim them at the guy in front of them on the count of three.
It’s long been common sense that you don’t point your firearm at something you’re not okay with putting a bullet through. Even if these pistols were loaded with blanks, that can still do a fair bit of damage.
Bad enough that the guns are not pointed in a safe direction (the importance of this rule can be seen in this video involving an AR-15-style shotgun), but the video also appears to show some of the trainees have their fingers inside the trigger guard and potentially on the trigger while the guns are pointed at the back of the trainees in front of them. Nothing good can come from that sort of drill.
Tell me, in what world does a firearms instructor run this kind of drill? I mean if you want people to practice drawing while they are walking, there are ranges for that. Heck, just about any practical shooting venue could provide this training – and the sport is done quite safely with people running around, as these videos posted by former “Power Rangers: Super Ninja Steel” star Chrysti Ane show.
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Note the safe firearms handling, even as there is some running across the range and that when done, the firearm goes back in the holster. Also, the handgun in question isn’t ever pointed at another human’s back, or at another human, period.
Seriously, those guys really ought to ask for the course fees back and find a legit pistol instructor. Ideally, the new instructor should be someone that doesn’t give them a chance to get a bullet in the back while trying to learn how to use their pistols for personal protection.
(DCNF)