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Why all this loading and unloading? At the end of the day, I take my holster off with the gun still in it and I stick it in the safe as a package. Before I leave the house, I take the holstered gun out of the safe and stick it on my belt. There is no administrative handling of the firearm at all. If I do have to unload/load for some reason (usually for cleaning/maintenance or dry-fire), I use an inside corner where the walls meet the floor as my safe direction. Also, that round does not get reloaded. It goes to the “range” ammo can for my next shooting session and a fresh round of carry ammo is unboxed and loaded.

Even though your are one of those weird Taylor Ham people, I love ya, Peel!

My habits are the opposite. Once the gun is holstered up on my belt it stays there until I have to take it off (such as going to pick my kid up from school) or I go to bed. The more a gun is handled, the greater the chance of a mishap. There is a reason police locker rooms have a loading/unloading station equipped with a bullet trap. When I do take my gun off, it stays loaded and goes directly into a quick access safe in my home. Carrying with an empty chamber is not common. In a few jurisdictions it is required by law (e.g. Israel) but since Col. Jeff Cooper had a few ideas it is not the preferred practice. Equally, prior to WW2, standing sideways and extending your pistol one handed was the 'proper' way to engage your adversary - that is not a preferred practice any more, either.

I am going to assume your handgun is holstered while around little ones. A decent holster renders the gun inert for all practical purposes, whether there is a round chambered or not. If your holster does not retain the gun sufficiently well that you are worried about it falling out while playing with kids, you need a better holster. As for the barrel pointing in the wrong direction, again in a decent holster that properly retains the gun and covers the trigger, little kids can run around your feet below hip level all day long perfectly safely. If they are climbing up you, again a proper holster will prevent them from inadvertently getting to the trigger. I suspect this is a confidence issue, rather than a true safety issue. If you are chambering the same round again and again, there is a risk of bullet set back. This is where the bullet is pushed into the case little by little each time it hits the feed ramp to be chambered. This is a bad thing and has the potential to create an overpressure event when that round is fired.

Maybe with toddlers around, a quick access safe is in your future. Having new grandkids that are just starting to walk, all my guns are locked away when they are visiting. There will be plenty of time to teach them about gun safety. But for now the only way to roll around and interact with them is when guns are locked up. Your mention of a gun barrel always facing the wrong way is really disturbing, though.

When the A-Holes in Trenton passed the less than standard capacity magazine reduction I moved all my 15 rounders out of state and replaced them all with factory 10 rounders. Sig and Berretta . This cost me a small fortune. I paid extra for reliability as I have never had to load down for any of them to function.

I don't disagree, but he wanted to know why he was told that, and now he knows. FYI, almost every mag I had pinned needs loading down 1. The simply fact is that if you can't load it full or can't rack the slide after loading full, you have no choice but to load it down one.

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Ocean County update. 8/12 Applied at Berkeley township police dept. 9/12 application sent to Ocean County 2/14 got the call and picked up permit (dated 2/6). My applicant number is 537. 3 guns listed, but no restrictions. 6 months

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I always carry 10+1. The law clearly states a maximum magazine capacity. Nothing is said about how many rounds you can have total.

Sort of on topic, I keep one semi with an empty chamber for a few specific weekly events. I feel safer around the little ones if I carry on an empty chamber. They like to climb up and God forbid. The barrel always seems to be facing in the wrong direction when toddlers are around. The other is when I know I'm going somewhere that is gun-free. So much easier and safer to drop the mag and stow the pistol in the trunk lock box unloaded. I tried it the other way and during the course of the week and I was loading and unloading too often.

He can hang with us. Those people who insist on calling it Taylor Ham are weird.

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