I hope I never become so familiar with firearms that I get complacent enough to have an ND. I have no stone to throw at you. I recognize this as being there but for the grace of God go I.

I too am just glad no one was hurt. It's easy to become complacent, even with firearms.

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I never unload unless I feel a need to clean clothes lint out of the barrel, nooks and crannies after being carried a while.

Same. End of day, I remove my holster, gun stays in it and it gets put on the top shelf in my safe (top shelf are loaded pistols, all in holsters). 1st of the month, carry guns get cleaned and lubed, holster gets wiped out (with a lysol type wipe to remove lint) and sits to dry (its Kydex).

I'm modestly dyslexic, and it manifests itself in different ways, including, sometimes a reversal of the order of established events. As a result, I always work the slide 3x before doing anything with a newly "unloaded" gun.

This has saved me once, as I did the "slide thing" before the "magazine thing" and was quite surprised to see a second round come sailing out of the gun, and land on the bench.

Thanks for posting. Good reminder for all of us, and grateful on one was hurt.

I applaud your character in posting a mistake that others can learn by.

Had one at the range while putting away my Shotgun. I always keep it loaded and the bolt was back.
Inadvertently dropped the bolt and when I put it in the back door rack I hit the trigger.
The safety was off due to a lack of thought.
Put a slug through my front windshield.
It scared the shit out of me, went through the covered roof of the bench/shooting stands.
Thank god I was there by myself.
I have no excuse, but as stated I reassessed my attention to the Rules.

Only ND I had was at the range, testing out my new-to-me machine gun, which fires from an open bolt. When I let the charging handle go, it slammed down and fired without my touching the trigger. But I was pointed downrange and on full alert, as the gun was new to me.

I did fire a .22 short in the house once, but it was intentional. Just wanted to see if it'd be quiet enough to shoot critters in the backyard from the kitchen without alerting the neighbors. Nope. Too loud. I shot it from a 1906 Winchester pump into a 4x6 block of wood with plenty of backstop.

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Being in LE, I’ve been around others in my presence, and closest, a .40 hit at my feet.

I got a frantic call at 2 AM one morning to go to the office. There was a filing cabinet that had a picture of a wanted sex offender. The picture took a 9 pellets of double ought from an “unloaded shotgun”. We searched for an picked pellets out of files for half an hour.

There are three types of mistakes:

1) Those you learn from.
2) Those you suffer from.
3) Those you don't survive.

Glad you are a member of the first group.

Put me in the camp of “I’ve learned my lesson” in the ND discussion. I was probably 20 and new to my recently purchased Glock 17. Nothing to blame but myself and I’ve never forgotten it.

4) the extremely expensive type.
5) the really inexpensive type.

Some years ago carrying a Llama 380 (1/2 sized 1911 style) behind the belt / in the small of my back / no holster.... off duty wearing street clothes. Had to go use the toilet... Room 8ft x 8ft / cinder block walls / concrete floor / concrete ceiling / small window opened about 3 inches located about 6 ft off floor on wall behind the toilet...... backed up to toilet / unhooked belt as prepairing to take a seat when all of a sudden a loud explosion which scared the sh-t out of me... Had forgotten about the pistol behind my belt and it fell to the floor and a ND occured...THANKFULLY NO INJURY..... was in a occupied Police dept building and no one heard the sound or responded... Took several minutes for nerves to calm down then started looking for the bullet which never found or any indication of a richochet on any surface... Bullet possibly exited the small window opening..... picked up the shell casing and secured pistol in car till I got home and retrieved a suitable holster for future carry. ................ drill sgt.

In the Air Force the local base commander has the authority to allow deviations from the standard rules regarding personal firearms on base. Normally you have to proceed straight to the armory and turn it over for safe keeping. At Kirtland AFB, NM, you're allowed to keep an unloaded firearm locked in your vehicle. (This says a lot about Albuquerque.) Despite being appreciative of the opportunity to be armed before and after work, I never really liked this policy. The unloaded part of the requirement will likely create the need to unload and load your firearm in your vehicle, potentially just off base property. To me that created many unnecessary opportunities to mess up and have an ND, and I only did it a handful of times before coming to this conclusion.

Between the opportunity to mess up and bullet setback, my carry guns stay loaded.

When you're dry firing and suddenly your ears are ringing and there's a hole in your wall.