not_IO4 rules of firearm safety
Lushed_LungfishThe first one is correct in an odd roundabout way. You can tell if the weapon is loaded by its weight. If the weapon has any weight whatsoever, i.e. it exists, it is treated as if it is loaded. Is there a weapon on the ground in front of you? It’s loaded. Have you been holding it for a while? It’s loaded. Did you clear it then put it on the ground and walk away for a bit? Surprise! It’s magically loaded again.
Did you clear it then put it on the ground and walk away for a bit? Surprise! It’s magically loaded again.
This rule would make it impossible to clean a Glock
Never used a Glock before, how is that? Don’t you disassemble it before cleaning it?
The design requires that you clear it and pull the trigger before disassembling it
Aha, then I understand! In my training, a “clear” drill was always concluded by firing in a safe direction (e.g. the ground), so I would regard that trigger pull as the conclusion of the clearing drill, not as “treating the weapon as unloaded”. The point of that step was exactly the mentality that “You just cleared the weapon, so obviously you should treat it as loaded and fire a shot into the ground to re-check that you actually cleared it”.