{"id":8949,"date":"2015-10-21T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2015-10-21T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:00:14","slug":"negligent-discharges-the-most-dangerous-activity-when-pistol-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/21\/negligent-discharges-the-most-dangerous-activity-when-pistol-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Negligent Discharges: The Most Dangerous Activity when Pistol Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/negligent-discharges.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8950\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/negligent-discharges.jpg\" alt=\"Negligent-Discharges\" width=\"450\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em><strong>By John Farnam<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ft Collins, CO \u2013<\/strong>-(<a title=\"AmmoLand Reports\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Ammoland.com<\/a>)- There are dangers inherent with having guns around. There are also dangers inherent with not having guns around.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>None of us get a risk-free life, and, in the end, the bacteria win.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not in dispute!<\/p>\n<p>However, in studying gun-training\/range accidents, there is little doubt that the most dangerous thing we do with pistols is reholster them!<\/p>\n<p>You can find examples of Negligent Discharges (NDs) associated with nearly any gun activity, from cleaning, to removing one from its case, but replacing a pistol into a holster, that is being worn at the time, is the one activity that tops the list!<\/p>\n<p>When the strong-side index finger <em>(trigger finger)<\/em> is inside, or even near, the trigger guard, the holster itself can push the finger into the trigger <em>(as the pistol is reholstered<\/em>) with enough force to cause the pistol to discharge.<\/p>\n<p>The result, depending upon where the holster is positioned, ranges from a hole, usually several, in the shooter\u2019s pants, or jacket (<em>shoulder holster<\/em>), to a hole in his foot, buttocks, or the foot of someone standing near him. In the case of appendix-carry, the hole is often through the shooter\u2019s upper leg, sometimes producing life-threatening injury to a femoral artery.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2015\/10\/negligent-discharges-the-most-dangerous-activity-when-pistol-training\/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=622af5bdf8-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-622af5bdf8-20724777#axzz3p1oOxTHg\"> Ammo-Land<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Farnam Ft Collins, CO \u2013-(Ammoland.com)- There are dangers inherent with having guns around. There are also dangers inherent with not having guns around. None of us get a risk-free life, and, in the end, the bacteria win. Not in dispute! However, in studying gun-training\/range accidents, there is little doubt that the most dangerous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[404],"tags":[1942,1289,1290,719,713,2646],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}