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The story of the person who was never allowed a gun again:
“On one military deployment, we had a total Lieutenant Kevin experience. In the US military, you had to clear your weapons before entering any hardened building, such as the Division Headquarters. No loaded weapons were allowed inside the building. To clear your weapon, there was a 55-gallon barrel filled with sand with a 6-inch hole in the top end sitting at a 45-degree angle next to the entrance. You release your weapon’s magazine, slide the charging handle to the rear to eject the live round from the chamber leaving it empty, then put the barrel of the weapon into the hole in the clearing barrel and pull the trigger. ‘Click.’ The weapon is now empty and safe. If there were a live round it would fire ‘safely’ into the barrel of sand.
On this particular day, Lieutenant Kevin proceeded to move the slide of his pistol to the rear, ejecting the round in the chamber…and loading a fresh round from the still-inserted magazine. Then he removes the magazine, places the weapon into the opening of the barrel, and pulls the trigger with a loud crack, wounding the clearing barrel. The guard on duty yells at him for being an incompetent moron, but the Lieutenant — wanting to show his competence — declares that he did everything in order and demonstrates it again. He reloads his weapon and again pulls the slide to the rear and releases it, ejecting the round that was in the chamber (again reloading a new round), removes the magazine, places the barrel inside the clearing barrel, pulls the trigger with a loud crack, and finishes off the clearing barrel with a kill shot.
Lieutenant Kevin spent the remainder of the deployment carrying a stapler in his holster instead of a pistol. He was required to clean his stapler daily, present it for inspection, and clear it of any staples at the clearing barrel before entering the headquarters.”
—anonymous
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