Firearm Safety Reminder

The Daily Mail reports that a Kentucky police officer shot his finger off, after being handed a loaded gun at a gun store. (Video at the link).

The pistol appears to be a small sized 1911 style .380. You will notice that the officer did not check to see whether the firearm was loaded or remove the magazine, did not maintain muzzle control or treat the gun as loaded (one of the basic rules of firearms safety), and actually worked the action that led to a round being chambered. That the slide didn't lock back on an empty magazine should have warned him....