Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction. Always keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you are ready to shoot. Always keep the gun unloaded until you are ready to use it. Never point the gun at anything you don’t intend to destroy.

In short, gun ownership does not increase safety, and the prevalence of guns directly correlates with significantly greater risk of gun-related homicides and suicides. While the facts surrounding the safety of having a gun in the home are clear, the choice to own a gun is more complicated for many homeowners.

The Four Primary Rules of Firearm Safety

• Watch that muzzle! Keep it pointed in a safe direction at all times.
• Treat every firearm with the respect due a loaded gun. It might be, even if you think it isn’t.
• Be sure of the target and what is in front of it and beyond it.
• Keep your finger outside the trigger guard until ready to shoot.

NRA’s Three Safety Rules

• Gun Safety Rule #1: ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.
• Gun Safety Rule #2: ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.
• Gun Safety Rule #3: ALWAYS keep the gun unloaded until ready to use.

1. Always Keep the Muzzle Pointed in a Safe Direction. This is the first rule of firearm safety. You are responsible for the bullet when it leaves the barrel.

But, no, in the real world guns do not backfire. If, however, a gun has its bore obstructed, is improperly loaded, or otherwise malfunctions, it can explode, sending hell hot gases and potentially lethal shards of metal back towards the shooter.

No, it’s not possible. You would lose your finger, and the bullet would have plenty of force to kill. However, there are some cases where it would APPEAR to be possible. Pushing back on the barrel of just about any modern automatic pistol will place the weapon ‘out of battery’ rendering it unable to fire.

Never pull the trigger on any firearm with the safety on the “safe” position or anywhere in between “safe” and “fire.” It is possible that the gun can fire at any time, or even later when you release the safety, without you ever touching the trigger again. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.

The 5 Basic Principles of Gun Safety:

• Treat every gun as if it were loaded.
• Always point your gun in a safe direction.
• Never point your gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot.
• Keep your finger off the trigger until your ready to shoot.
• Be sure of your target and what’s beyond.

A safety is a device that blocks the action to prevent the firearm from shooting until the safety is released or pushed to the off position. The safety is intended to prevent the firearm from being fired accidentally.

RED

Red Means Dead When the safety is off, you’ll see a red indicator appear on the safety’s button or slide mechanism. Some rifles and shotguns with a slide safety may also have the letter “F” appear when the gun may be fired and an “S” appear when the safety is on.

On a handgun with a safety, the safety will be located around the receiver and is usually easy to spot. The red outlines indicate where safeties typically are located on semi-automatic pistols.

When it comes to firearms, red means, ready to fire. When the safety is taken off there is a red dot, which means the firearm is now ready to fire. Once a firearm’s red dot is exposed it should be handled with even more care. Even if you are not sure if the firearm is loaded or not, you must treat it as though it is.

A red dot optic is essentially anchored to the pistol and emits a reflection. When zeroing a red dot, one is essentially orienting the reflection to be true to point of impact of its host. Once zeroed, if the shooter can see the dot, they are seeing an “aligned” sight picture.

So, to be clear, when we discuss safeties we are strictly referring to manual safeties—a bar or lever that must be moved to allow the gun to fire.

Break action is a type of firearm action in which the barrel or barrels are hinged much like a door and rotate perpendicularly to the bore axis to expose the breech and allow loading and unloading of cartridges. A separate operation may be required for the cocking of a hammer to fire the new round.

Frame: The frame is a metal housing that also serves as the handle (grip) of the handgun. All other parts are contained within it or connected to it. Barrel: The barrel is the metal tube that the bullet travels through.

The lever-action firearm has a large metal lever located behind the trigger. This handle usually forms the trigger guard as well. To open the action, push the lever downward and forward, which extracts the cartridge case from the chamber and ejects it.

For whatever reason, lever actions have a reputation for being rugged, tough, and reliable. They’re the perfect gun for the prepper or outdoor survivalist. The truth is that, compared to almost any other rifle being made today, lever actions are more delicate and prone to failure.

Bolt actions aren’t as prone to that, though they are generally slower than a lever action when you’re used to it. Both load much like a bolt action and are as reliable (if not more Mud test: The WW1 Winchester 1895 this did better than every bolt action they’ve tested ) than bolt actions, they are faster firing.