Tam recounts some silliness at her local gun range. In short, there’s now some new rule at the range that basically is saying no loaded guns in holsters at the firing line. Of course, there’s not much logic to this:

Now the pistol of mine that was so safe that morning eating breakfast at Le Peep and that afternoon at the grocery store was unloaded so it would be safe at the pistol range, too. Raise your hand if that makes sense to you.

And wouldn’t you think gun folk would know better? Apparently not.

See, this is one Lowest Common Denominator “safety” policy that is only going to lead to unnecessary bullet holes. If rigidly adhered to, it means Cletus and Jasper have to fiddle-fart around with loaded guns twice; once on arrival and again on leaving, instead of leaving them safely in their holsters andnot touching them. Now, the po-po firearms training building at Iggle Crick is right off the parking lot and has a handy sand-filled clearing barrel, but how many people are going to look for that, much less use it religiously?

Remember: One handy rule for preventing negligent discharges is stop touching your damn gun so much! Think about every story of an ND you’ve heard: It was somebody holstering or unholstering or clearing or loading or otherwise somehow futzing with the gun, right? It’s almost never “The gun was sitting in the holster and went off.” Why then, in the name of safety, would you encourage the former rather than the latter?