Safety
To avoid unwanted discharges and accidents, there are set of guidelines, known as the cardinal rules, used to ensure a safe shoot house session. These cardinal rules are:
- Treat every fire arm as if it's loaded.
- Keep your fire arm pointed away from other people.
- Keep your finger out and away from the trigger.
- Be aware of not just your target but everything beyond it.
In addition to the cardinal rules other guidelines include:
- The mandatory use of ear and eye protection.
- The mandatory use of body armor.
- Targets should be place around room so rounds hit the impact areas.
- There should be no one in the shoot house before the training exercise.
- Equipment (guns, ammunition, targets, and the shoot house) should all be authorized and inspected before training exercise.
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Famous quotes containing the word safety:
“Love no man in good earnest, nor no further in sport
neither, than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst in
honor come off again.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Perhaps having built a barricade when you’re sixteen provides you with a sort of safety rail. If you’ve once taken part in building one, even inadvertently, doesn’t its usually latent image reappear like a warning signal whenever you’re tempted to join the police, or support any manifestation of Law and Order?”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“Can we not teach children, even as we protect them from victimization, that for them to become victimizers constitutes the greatest peril of all, specifically the sacrifice—physical or psychological—of the well-being of other people? And that destroying the life or safety of other people, through teasing, bullying, hitting or otherwise, “putting them down,” is as destructive to themselves as to their victims.”
—Lewis P. Lipsitt (20th century)