Safety
Range Safety
Always wear appropriate clothing when shooting. This includes long pants, closed shoes and high necked shirts. Always have your eye and ear protection on when on the range. Never bother another shooter while they are on the line. Never cross the firing line without the rangemaster’s knowledge and approval. Do not clear your own jams [...]
Range Safety
Always wear appropriate clothing when shooting. This includes long pants, closed shoes and high necked shirts. Always have your eye and ear protection on when on the range. Never bother another shooter while they are on the line. Never cross the firing line without the rangemaster’s knowledge and approval. Do not clear your own jams [...]
Impressing Your Gun Store: Do Your Homework
One of the most frustrating experiences that a gun store employee can have is when a customer tells them that “I need a gun.” For what? Hunting? Concealed carry? Home defense? Often, this leads to the employee pulling down a selection of guns that cover a vast range of possible uses. Of course, if you [...]
Impressing Your Gun Store: Testing The Trigger
Testing the trigger on a gun that you’re looking to buy is important. You wouldn’t buy a car you hadn’t test driven, and you wouldn’t buy a gun that you hadn’t at least dry fired, right? But how can you make sure you’re testing the trigger correctly when you try it out? Luckily, we’re here [...]
Impressing Your Gun Store: Trigger Discipline
Welcome back to our fictional gun store, where we’re teaching you how to impress the employees by being safe and knowledgeable. Today we’re looking at one of the most common mistakes people make in the store: putting their finger on the trigger. We all know rule 2 of gun safety, right? “Keep your finger off [...]
Impressing Your Gun Store: How to Evaluate and Pick Ergonomics
Safe and clear Welcome back to our series on safely buying your first gun and making sure that the person selling you that gun thinks you’re cool. Today we’re taking a look how to select a gun’s ergonomic features. Or to put it another way, how the gun fits in your hand. First and foremost in [...]
Impressing Your Gun Store: Safety At The Counter
Welcome to our all-new Bullfighter Journal. You want to buy your first gun? Or, you’ve already went through the process and understand that the person selling you the gun has, well, seen some stuff. After years of standing behind the counter with the mentality of “The Customer is Always Right”—and biting their lip through some crazy [...]
Home Gun Safety
Project Home Safe For as long as there have been firearms, there has been the need to protect and educate our children when it comes to guns. One of the biggest problems we have today is that there is not enough firearms safety training for children. Rossi is as concerned about your children and their [...]
10 Rules of Firearms Safety
1 ALWAYS KEEP THE MUZZLE POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION This is the most basic safety rule. If everyone handled a firearm so carefully that the muzzle never pointed at something they didn’t intend to shoot, there would be virtually no firearms accidents. It’s as simple as that, and it’s up to you. Never point [...]
Basic keys to safe handling of firearms:
Basic keys to safe handling of firearms: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOU ARE READY TO FIRE. If you maintain good trigger discipline, it is extremely unlikely the firearm will fire. KEEP THE MUZZLE POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION. Even if the firearm discharges, if the muzzle is pointed in a safe direction, [...]
