Gun Safety - people who should know better

[LuckyEddie]

Reading today’s Scotsman newspaper about Starmer potentially creating a two tier disability system.

What caught my eye wasn’t the article, but the photo of the Kemi Badenoch at an army base holding a rifle standing next to an officer.

Talk about rifle safety!

 

[Freeforester]

Looks like Kemi gave him a semi, whilst holding one herself…

 

[Donkey Basher]

That should be a caption competition - the look on Rupert’s face suggests he’s not too happy about the pose!

 

[bowji john]

She looks like a member of Frelimo

 

[Pedro]

Should know better? She's probably never held a gun in her life before. She should have been suitably briefed beforehand. In any case, not a good look really.

 

[bobt]

no way would they give her anything loaded,
the first thing numpties do is put a finger on the trigger

 

[Koenig]

What on earth is she doing???

 

[Bo Diddley]

Agreed on the caption competition... watch the next instalment of HIGNFY, Paul Merton will come up with something suitable...

 

[Mungo]

She looks like a member of Frelimo

At least they knew how to hold a gun…

Marking minefields, on the other hand…

 

[Smellydog]

I feel so safe having these idiots in charge.

Beware of professionals with guns I was taught!

 

[tarponhead]

I feel so safe having these idiots in charge.

Beware of professionals with guns I was taught!

Dead right! Muzzle awareness getting onto military bases is still an issue. MoD Police were fine, but bored squaddies on guard duty….not so much. On the pic, she should have been better supervised and briefed - not her fault.

 

[thorneyglatt]

Of course we all like to be outraged by 'clueless' politicians, but in fairness, the camera angle may not be giving a truthful picture. (Think of all those Field Sports Channel 'unsafe shots' we've been horrified by in the past !) To me it looks as though the muzzle may well be pointing off to the officer's right, and certainly the lady's index finger isn't on the trigger. Even so, I'd rather stand behind the gun !

 

[Sonicdmb73]

Chances are it's the perspective being altered by the lens used.
That aside there no magazine in the weapon. There will be no live rounds anywhere near. Does it look bad? Yes. Is it going to do any harm? Not unless she drops it on her toes.

 

[Dickie]

She says So you have one of these when patrolling the Brize Norton perimeter but they don’t trust you with bullets as well. Hmmmm

 

[Smellydog]

"
"You don't point a firearm at anything you are not prepared to destroy."

"All firearms are hot".

The above quotes are what I go by. The above photo violates them.

I will also add that in an incident with armed police, a firearm leveled thus would probably result in her being shot!

 

[UnframedDave]

I was at a country fair in the spring. Whilst walking round with the good lady, a visitor to a regimental stand was pointing an assault rifle directly at my head, eyeing me through the sight. Whilst I know that the gun would have been 100% safe, it was a very uncomfortable feeling and the supervising squaddie should have known far better.

Earlier in the day, before the show opened to the public, I noticed a rifle unattended on the bench at the front of the same stand whilst the "staff" were at the back having a natter. I was not impressed.

 

[Longstrider]

At a gun show I once turned a corner to find myself staring down the wrong end (at very short range) of a shouldered side-by-side being waved about by some numpty who might or might not have thought of buying it. By the time my brain had registered the facts of my location the gun was pointed skyward and the chap who had been holding it was going downwards.
I 'suggested' to the stand holder that he had customers only point them at the wall behind him in future.

 

[Smellydog]

I was at a country fair in the spring. Whilst walking round with the good lady, a visitor to a regimental stand was pointing an assault rifle directly at my head, eyeing me through the sight. Whilst I know that the gun would have been 100% safe, it was a very uncomfortable feeling and the supervising squaddie should have known far better.

Earlier in the day, before the show opened to the public, I noticed a rifle unattended on the bench at the front of the same stand whilst the "staff" were at the back having a natter. I was not impressed.

I'd of gone freaking nuts!