Don't touch that trigger!

[legend]

My wife had never shot a gun before we started dating. She doesn't shoot often anymore, but we used to go shoot fairly often (Before she got pregnant, anyway)

I was showing my wife the new XD40 and Taurus PT1911SS that I bought at the recent Reliant gunshow. I checked both guns before handing to her, of course. I told her "Pull the trigger on the Taurus, it's awesome!" She said "Oh no, you told me to NEVER touch the trigger unless I intend to destroy whatever the gun is pointed at". I said "Well, yes, but I just checked the chamber, and it's not loaded. See?" and I pulled back the slide to show her (No magazine, no round, etc.) She said "Yes, I see, it's definately empty, but I don't feel comfortable touching the trigger unless I'm ready to shoot the gun, no matter what"....

I have to say, that even though the gun was completely empty, and she might have been being a little "over paranoid", I was very proud... :) You can never be too careful!

[longtooth]

Good job girl.

[KD5NRH]

I have to say, that even though the gun was completely empty, and she might have been being a little "over paranoid", I was very proud... :) You can never be too careful!

I still feel that way when in other people's houses; I know where the safe directions are in my house, even accounting for ricochets, whereas I don't necessarily know where the round will go in someone else's house.

[DParker]

Kudos to your wife for her attitude, which stands in stark contrast to the air-head who a couple of weeks ago was at the pistol range I frequent, and whom I observed while sitting back and waiting for one of the lanes I wanted to become free. Her boyfriend (I assume) had brought her along and after running through a few mags himself let her try out his little sub-compact autoloader (I couldn't tell exactly what make or model...maybe a Kel-Tec of some kind). After about every other shot she would look back over her shoulder to make some comment to him, and in doing so would be waving the muzzle all over the place, but mostly along the firing line to her right. He finally said something to her about it, to which her response was a snotty, "Chill out!", and she continued on with the same sloppy habit. At this point I was sufficiently concerned that I walked to the shed and informed the range master of what was going on, and he came out and rectified the situation.

Of course I can forgive her ignorance and blame her boyfriend even more, since if he'd had any sense (and/or testicular fortitude) he'd have made her cease the offending behavior immediately. But that was needlessly compounded by her arrogant and childish attitude, which should be embarrassing to any adult in any situation, let alone one like this.