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NRA Rule #3: Decoding "Ready to Use"
If you teach firearms, train new shooters, or just spend time in online forums, you know the drill. In every single discussion, there's one safety rule that trips people up: NRA Rule #3: ALWAYS Keep the Gun Unloaded Until Ready to Use. Ask what that means, and you'll usually get a simple, almost robotic answer: "No round in the chamber" or "No magazine in the gun." Then comes the predictable, frantic follow-up from the self-defense crowd: "But if I need the gun for protection
Carl Hirt
Feb 13 min read
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