I am not inclined to show my handguns to friends, family and acquaintances, much less discuss the broader subject of individual armament, unless I know they are on "our" side.
Most of our friends (with maybe two exceptions) either own a gun or came from a pro-gun family, so we feel comfortable letting them hold and look at our guns in our apartment, but no one knows my husband has a CHL and carries. Once I'm old enough to get a CHL we're also keeping that under wraps. Only my husband's parents know he carries and we don't plan on telling my mother for reasons of our safety.

Guess we're lucky to have so many friends who think alike in regards to owning firearms!
I like and watch movies just as much as the next guy, but I have never had an inclination to flip the cylinder closed on a revolver - ever. I want to know where these guys have seen people do this! I think part of the problem is that the friends of ours who have guns of their own only keep semi-autos and think it quaint that we'd want something archaic like a revolver. They either haven't handled them before or don't treat it with the same respect as a semi-auto because you can be rough with a semi but a revolver is a slightly more delicate when it comes to the few moving parts it has...if you want to keep the gun safe and in working order, that is.
Speaking of guns in movies, I watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for the first time a couple weeks ago and the scene where Harry plays Russian Roulette had me laughing so hard I cried. I liked it not only because it was ironic but because it shows (in a movie!) that a loaded gun, even one loaded with just one round, is still LOADED. If anyone hasn't seen the movie, this is the scene I'm talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHkSDJmSgqo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; It's only about 2.5 minutes but the point of interest is at 2:12 if you don't want to watch the whole thing.
I swear, I learn something new every day on this forum. I do not have a lot of experience with revolvers. I'd like to think that I wouldn't have done the gun-flip-cylinder-lock thing, but thanks to this post, I now know that you're not supposed to do that!
We are here to share and learn - glad you learned something new! I'm learning something on the scale of 2-3 new things every time I come to this forum so I keep coming often. This is the most active forum I've been to and I like the community.
