Firearms Safety Fundamentals

Firearms Safety is the single most important factor to consider for anyone who owns or plans to use a firearm.

Any activity that involves the use of firearms includes the potential for serious injury or death if adequate safety rules are not built into the equation.

It is for that reason that virtually all firearms training stresses that the fundamental rules of firearms safety must be consistently applied and become reflexive on the part of anyone engaged in the use of firearms.

Virtually all firearms training in the United States today recognizes the application of the Four Rules of Firearms Safety as codified by Col. Jeff Cooper in his “Modern Technique of the Pistol”.

Those four rules are:

Rule 1 -- All firearms are always treated as loaded firearms.

Rule 2 -- Never point the muzzle of a firearm at anything you are not prepared to destroy.

Rule 3 -- Keep your finger off the trigger until your firearm is on target and you have made a conscious decision to shoot.

Rule 4 -- Be aware of your target and what is beyond it.

In the posts that follow I will be discussing each of the Four Rules of Firearms Safety and it's application in detail...