I'm confident that, maybe with 5min instructional time from a gun guy (or gal, women are the fastest growing group of gun owners today), anyone with a phd could be taught "push button, remove mag, rack slide" and "push button, swing cylinder, push ejector rod out."

They really aren't as hard to learn to use safely as Alec Baldwin would have you believe. Shooting accurately is another matter but simply being safe is as easy as learning 4 rules and a basic knowledge of how common firearms function.

Edit: here, I'll link a video where ~~for three easy payments of $29.99~~ in one whole minute and 38 seconds you too can learn how to clear semi auto handguns (the most common type of gun by a mile) safely like a pro!

You see how easy this is? A surgeon should be competent enough to learn how to do this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (9 children)

It's harder to learn for many people than you might think. There are 1000's of different kinds of types and models many with subtle differences from one another from one year to the next. Nor do you know just how mechanically sound that gangbanger's gun is either - what parts might be broken, missing, or badly modified.

It's probably not worth the risk when you can just place it in a lockbox and call the cops to deal with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Sure there's 1000s of diff types but he doesn't have a vickers or an mg-42 stuffed down his joggers, he has one of the many revolvers or semi autos that all function the same way. Probably could narrow it down even further, it's likely either a glock (26, 43, 45, 19, 19x, or 17), a sig (p320 or p365), a S&W (m&p or sd9ve), a Ruger (mkIII or IV, lcp9), a taurus (lol gross), or a hi-point (also lol) or any crappy .22lr revolver. For 99.9% of guns you encounter (unless your friend is a collector,) they're all going to function similarly enough to at least get it cleared.

As to broken or badly modified, typically it can still be cleared, I've never seen a gun so badly broken that dropping the mag or racking the slide fires it. In theory, sure, but that's why you're following all the rules of gun safety and pointing it in a safe direction (at something that'll catch the bullet if all goes wrong.)

I've seen literal children learn how, if they can I hope a surgeon can.

[–] dotMonkey 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or just put it in a lockbox

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

If they have one, but it's still safer to put an unloaded gun in an anything.

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