Guns are designed to go \u201cbang\u201d when their triggers are depressed. Unfortunately, everyone grows up seeing thousands of images of people on TV and movie screens wielding their guns with fingers right there on the trigger. Then there\u2019s a startle response or some other stimulus, and BANG! An unintentional shot is fired, sometimes with fatal results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Any firearms instructor or range safety officer can tell you that the single corrective command that has to be uttered on the firing line is \u201cfinger!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an expert witness for the courts in weapon-related matters since 1979, I\u2019ve long since lost count of how many of the cases involved a finger on the trigger when it shouldn\u2019t have been, and often a tragic unintended shooting resulted.For decades now I\u2019ve written the Cop Talk column for\u00a0American Handgunner\u00a0<\/a><\/em>magazine. The following comes from there. The folks at American Handgunner apparently thought the matter was important enough to run it again<\/a> recently, and I agree:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The rule \u201con target, on trigger\/ off target off trigger\u201d is not enough! I teach it as \u201cthe trigger finger will be inside the trigger guard only if and when you are in the very act of intentionally discharging the weapon.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n As always, your opinion and commentary is invited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guns are designed to go \u201cbang\u201d when their triggers are depressed. Unfortunately, everyone grows up seeing thousands of images of people on TV and movie screens wielding their guns with fingers right there on the trigger. Then there\u2019s a startle response or some other stimulus, and BANG! An unintentional shot is fired, sometimes with fatal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8388,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8386\/revisions\/8388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}