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Title: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: CDR on June 25, 2009, 07:42:30 PM
Talk about peace of mind when loading and unloading your guns.  This is money well spent, certainly.

http://www.firearms-safety.com/indexa.php
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: fightingquaker13 on June 25, 2009, 08:53:40 PM
This is a joke right? :o
FQ13 Who is tinking about patentign a line of left handed smoke shifters, contactor approved board stretchers and "tactical" fly swatters if its not
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: 1911 Junkie on June 25, 2009, 09:11:34 PM
$500-$950  ???  I've seen cops shoot.......what do they do when they miss? 8)

One of the shops I frequented used a 5 gallon bucket filled with sand with another 5 gallon bucket on top with a hole in the bottom to shoot through. Seems much more economical.
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: Hazcat on June 25, 2009, 10:53:06 PM
$500-$950  ???  I've seen cops shoot.......what do they do when they miss? 8)

One of the shops I frequented used a 5 gallon bucket filled with sand with another 5 gallon bucket on top with a hole in the bottom to shoot through. Seems much more economical.

Same as we used in the service!
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: Texas_Bryan on June 25, 2009, 10:57:28 PM
What is it for?  Yeah, I see you shoot in it or the gun goes of in it.  But why???
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: tombogan03884 on June 25, 2009, 11:04:58 PM
 For clearing weapons, military and Cops were having a lot of NEGLIGENT discharges so again they solve a TRAINING problem with a gadget.
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: Texas_Bryan on June 25, 2009, 11:15:24 PM
For clearing weapons, military and Cops were having a lot of NEGLIGENT discharges so again they solve a TRAINING problem with a gadget.

What!?  Clearing guns?  Keep you fat snausages of the trigger.  If you have the presents of mind to remember to use this device, surely you can remember one of the four rules of firearms safety.  There are only four of them.  Maybe if they feared some kind of mechanical failure that could lead to a misfire.  They should just have a weapon clearing station, its just a corner with a sign that says

'Read this sign before clearing weapon.'

'Take you finger off the trigger!'

'And point weapon is a non inhabited direction.'

Maybe its just my youthful idealism that fails me on this one. :-\
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: Ping on June 25, 2009, 11:49:45 PM
I am wondering where discipline and firearms safety took a blind side???? I may be losing out on a lucrative money making scheme here and it pisses me off.  ;)
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: runstowin on June 25, 2009, 11:57:18 PM
Gee! do they make one for an air gun?
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: blackwolfe on June 26, 2009, 01:52:12 AM
For clearing weapons, military and Cops were having a lot of NEGLIGENT discharges so again they solve a TRAINING problem with a gadget.

Reminds me of a story one of the firearms instructors from my sportsman club told us.  While serving in Korea one of the guys in his unit put some deisel fuel in a helmet to clean his .45.  The guy took the mag out and swished the .45 around in the diesel, wiped if off with a rag and put the magazine back in.  He pointed it down at the helmet and pulled the trigger.  Bang, he had never cleared the chamber. The bullet followed the contour of the helmet,came back at him, and grazed the his ear.  When he reported to the medic he made up a story that he had been observing the enemy when an artillary shell went off near him and he was hit by shrapnel.  The instructor said the worse part about the whole thing was watching the guy get a purple heart for being "wounded".
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: fightingquaker13 on June 26, 2009, 02:10:42 AM
Reminds me of a story one of the firearms instructors from my sportsman club told us.  While serving in Korea one of the guys in his unit put some deisel fuel in a helmet to clean his .45.  The guy took the mag out and swished the .45 around in the diesel, wiped if off with a rag and put the magazine back in.  He pointed it down at the helmet and pulled the trigger.  Bang, he had never cleared the chamber. The bullet followed the contour of the helmet,came back at him, and grazed the his ear.  When he reported to the medic he made up a story that he had been observing the enemy when an artillary shell went off near him and he was hit by shrapnel.  The instructor said the worse part about the whole thing was watching the guy get a purple heart for being "wounded".
Well, he WAS wounded. It just seems he deserves a purple ass (from all the kicking) more than a purple heart, but hey, God watches over fools and drunks.
FQ13
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: Pathfinder on June 26, 2009, 05:55:50 AM
Reminds me of a story one of the firearms instructors from my sportsman club told us.  While serving in Korea one of the guys in his unit put some deisel fuel in a helmet to clean his .45.  The guy took the mag out and swished the .45 around in the diesel, wiped if off with a rag and put the magazine back in.  He pointed it down at the helmet and pulled the trigger.  Bang, he had never cleared the chamber. The bullet followed the contour of the helmet,came back at him, and grazed the his ear.  When he reported to the medic he made up a story that he had been observing the enemy when an artillary shell went off near him and he was hit by shrapnel.  The instructor said the worse part about the whole thing was watching the guy get a purple heart for being "wounded".

I didn't know Jon Karry served in Korea.
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: Solus on June 26, 2009, 06:01:12 AM
The only time I feel a need for such a product is when I let the slide slam home on a newly inserted magazine for loading.

I keep the muzzle pointed in a "harmless" direction...but into the floor of the room or into the wall at the far end of the basement is not desirable. 

This is the only time I take action that might cause a discharge ..not likely, but it is part of the firing sequence of the pistol.

All other times I have enough sense to be sure the weapon is unloaded ...but still pointed in a "safe" direction.


At that price, however, I'll patch a hole in the floor if that ever becomes necessary.
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: billt on June 26, 2009, 07:17:59 AM
I would like to see a cross section of that thing.  Bill T.
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: fightingquaker13 on June 26, 2009, 11:02:04 AM
I would like to see a cross section of that thing.  Bill T.
For $950, plus shipping parts and labor, I'll send you one. ;D
FQ13
Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: PegLeg45 on June 26, 2009, 11:58:21 AM
These are cheaper if the need arises.....

http://www.safedirection.com/ballisticcontainment/academypad.html


Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: PegLeg45 on June 26, 2009, 12:00:12 PM
I am wondering where discipline and firearms safety took a blind side???? I may be losing out on a lucrative money making scheme here and it pisses me off.  ;)

They seem to have went the same way as morals, scruples, and responsibility for ones actions in society.

Title: Re: A tremendous concept and product..........Brilliant!!
Post by: Kid Shelleen on June 26, 2009, 12:53:29 PM
To safely discharge weapon follow these instructions:

#1.  Point weapon in the direction of the nearest politician.

#2.......................... ;D