I am not one who believes in putting a gun on safe during immediate action (Tap, Rack, Bang) or slide lock/bolt lock reloads. The point of these manipulations is to correct the issue as fast as possible because you need to have the gun back in the fight as soon as possible. The last thing you should be doing during these times is a form of virtue signaling. Perhaps focusing on weapons handling and proper adherence to the safety rules is more reasonable than adding steps to manipulations and mechanics that can't even be universally applied.

​If there is one pet peeve I have, it is people who are trigger snobs. These are the people that will refuse to shoot a stock firearm and will critique anything that has a trigger pull over 3 pounds. If the trigger pull is not dangerously short and light, it is dangerously long and heavy in their opinion. Unfortunately, a lot of impressionable newbies to the shooting community tend to get drawn into what these snobs say and feel that the pinnacle of skill and competence revolves around being picky. However, in my years of shooting with and against these types of people, I have found that trigger snobbery is merely a symptom of problems and failures in skill. This article is going to examine a couple of the failures trigger snobs have. This article may hurt a few feelings, but it is all in pursuit of the truth. It is time that trigger snobs get called out for the frauds they really are.