Never Point A Gun At Anything You Don’t Intend To Shoot

It may be tempting to train the sights of your gun on ‘alternative’ targets such as the dangling lightbulb at your indoor range or the corner of an angled piece of rusty metal left abandoned in a field on your permission. You might kid yourself that you’re just practicing quick target acquisition and it’s all perfectly safe because you have no intention of actually taking a shot.  What you’re actually doing is completely ignoring rule the most important rule – not keeping the gun pointed in a safe direction.