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DD's are frowned upon OP.
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Just want some Insite on how you girls would feel about this
Excuse me??
The first thing, literally, I learned when handling a gun was not to aim it at anything I didn't intend on destroying or killing.
If you want to learn how to shoot, go to a trained professional and take your husband with you. He has no idea WTF he's doing.
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I'm not sure I fully understand what you wrote. Your husband wanted you to point his gun (unloaded, you think, but you were not entirely sure) at him?
If that's the case, that would not be cool in my book. Loaded or unloaded, you don't point a weapon at a person unless you mean to harm that person.
As a disclaimer, I'm fairly anti-gun, at least as far as I would be responsible for them. Which means no guns for DH, either, because I'd be responsible for them while he was deployed or TDY. (I'm cool with other people having them, even having them under my roof, but I don't want to ever have to care for a gun myself...)
Yep.
There is so much jacked up about this entire post. Let me get this straight. Your husband told you to point a gun at him and you did it not knowing if it was loaded or unloaded? Is your husband trying to die and are you willing to kill him? That is the most idiotic crap I have heard in a long time.
Look, you and your husband need to get in to couseling. Yeah, you, too. You followed his directions knowing full well it was foolish. Your H has no buisness looking at a gun much less teaching others to use them, being on a competition team, or carrying one daily for work. I would jack someone up if I knew they were at home "teaching" their spouse, or anyone else for that matter, to use a fire arm while pointing it at ANYONE.
The basic rules of fire arm safety are:
1: Handle a weapon as if it were loaded, even if you know for a fact it is not.
2: Never point a weapon at anyone you do not fully entend to KILL.
If you want to learn to use a weapon, there are firing ranges that can help you with that. One near us does a "Girls Night Out" special for women who have no expirience. It costs $30 for rental of a pistol, ammo, snacks and sodas. Look into it. In the mean time, hide all weapons in your house until you get help for your husband.
I don't disagree, but I would go as far as to suggest (ahem, highly encourage) storing them at the armory on base until both members of this marriage are in counseling and actually benefitting from it, as well as all members of the household attending firearm safety classes.
Also, just from a training perspective, your education shouldn't begin with shooting the weapon. It needs to be with nomenclature, disassembling, reassembling, cleaning, and basic safety principles. (That's obviously for the OP, not the rest of us.)
In the last year at my base alone, we've done two courts-martial for people being idiots with guns (separate incidents, we have a dead guys and one with PTSD), and a third case that didn't go to trial that involved a cop getting shot when he crossed the firing line too early at the range.
Dude. I was trying to practice the trigger pull (it's super long) on my handgun and couldn't figure out where to point the dayum thing that didn't make me uncomfortable. It was unloaded. OP's H needs a serious smack upside the hide.
ETA: head not hide but that works too I guess
I'm calling mud.
There's no way this could be true, it's just too effed up!
Perhaps it's due to the nature of my job, but I don't think it's mud. I don't think anyone who's dealt with junior enlisted (the stereotypical young ones who engage in risky behavior) or worried about someone with post-deployment problems would find this scenario too far fetched.
Ohh Shitake shrooms then! Makes sense then, but holy crap that's messed up! Hope she checks back and gets him some help stat!