If a simple device could help prevent accidental gun deaths, why don’t most guns have it?
A "magazine disconnect" on handguns can help prevent accidental shootings, but the gun industry has opposed efforts to mandate it.
A 13-year-old in Chicago takes his father’s pistol out of a lockbox and removes the magazine from the weapon. He shows the gun to a neighbor the same age, and pretends to fire it several times.
Two former Marines in their 20s meet up to watch a Miami Dolphins game in Florida. One pulls out the Glock he just got for Christmas, taking out the magazine before handing it to the other.
A 64-year-old grandfather in Texas ejects the magazine from his gun, preparing to clean it, pointing the barrel toward the wall. His grandson’s friend is in a bedroom on the other side.
Each thinks the gun in their hand is unloaded because the magazine holding the bullets has been removed.
None of them realize there is still a single live round in each gun’s chamber, bullets that will kill their neighbor, their Marine buddy, and their grandson’s friend when they pull the trigger.
Rating: 5