Have you had a negligent discharge?

[jumbopanda]

Just wondering how many Calgunners have had a ND before.

[Bobula]

None for me, thanks.

[DB2]

Negative, and I'll try my best to keep it that way.

[gcvt]

Not a single one since I got my first gun at age 13....26 years ago.

I just went through the three guns I'm taking shooting tomorrow. I must have checked each one five times, just to make sure. When you live in an apartment in San Francisco, there's people all around you all the time. An ND could be absolutely catastrophic. With that said, I'd still be just as careful if I lived alone in the middle of nowhere.

Never get complacent or careless!

I give credit to my Father and Grandfather for teaching me gun safety at a very young age. Teach 'em young.

[Cato]

No way. I respect guns for the awesome machines that they are. Personal rule of mine...never load a firearm outside of the range. My home defense pistol has a loaded magazine, but no round in the barrel. My shotgun has shells in a stock carrier, I keep my mag tube empty. I use snap caps for function checks.

[Spyder]

One time, unfamiliar gun, mistake. Lesson learned. No harm, no foul, no damage or injury or death. Muzzle was pointed in a safe direction and I fumbled the controls. I figure it was a helluva good way to pound that lesson into my head even more, seeing that either one of my parents would have kicked my rear if they knew about it.

[Full Clip]

When I was about 14. I'd removed the magazine but not unloaded my dad's M1 carbine. The round went into ground, but scared the hell out of me. In a good way.

[TimG]

I personaly have not but I feel I did contribute to one. I use to store my Glock G26 with a full magazine in the pistol but no round chambered. I handed it to my Dad who took it out of the holster then pulled the slide back to confirm there was no round chambered but when he released the slide of course it chambered one. How he didnt notice the magazine I dont know. And theres only one way to decock a Glock.....pull the trigger The round hit the bottom of my safe then the garage floor and pretty much disintegrated. I dont know which was louder, the 9mm going off in the closed garage or the ensuing chewing out from the wife. Thank God he had it pointed in a safe direction at least.

[Greg-Dawg]

My rule:

Triple, quadruple, fiftuple, sixtuple, septuple, eightuple, ninthtuple and tenthtuple times in checking that the gun's unloaded.

[sorensen440]

Yep
I was younger
It was actually pointed downrange but I still had not intended to have it fire when it went
I'm alot more careful now

[What Just Happened?]

When I'm dryfiring, I do a chamber check almost every other shot.

Because I've never had a negligent discharge and want to keep it that way.

[ibanezfoo]

The safety rules are pretty easy to remember and follow through... not sure why people these days still have negligent discharges (firearms related, that is )

-Bryan

[nothing4u]

If a firearm leaves my line of sight after it gets checked, it gets checked again before it goes anywhere.

[mike22ca]

Thank god no so far.

[Nodda Duma]

The safety rules are pretty easy to remember and follow through... not sure why people these days still have negligent discharges (firearms related, that is )

-Bryan

Because many families (and more so now than in the past) do not feel it necessary to teach their children proper firearm safety (which is where it should initially be taught), and/or do not have a firearm in the home. My in-laws are a prime example. My wife was never taught firearm safety--nor had she fired a firearm--before I met her.

-Jason