GUNS ARE DIFFERENT - FIREARMS SAFETY
1980 · Department of Defense, Defense Imagery (via FedFlix)
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- Creating body, as recorded
- Department of Defense
- DoD production number
- PIN 40224
- Internet Archive item
- gov.dod.dimoc.40224 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
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Department of Defense PIN 40224 GUNS ARE DIFFERENT - FIREARMS SAFETY PRIMITIVE WEAPONS ARE RELATIVELY SAFE TO USE, BUT GUNS ARE SHOWN TO BE DIFFERENT IN A SERIES OF AIR FORCE ACCIDENTS. A YOUNG SGT DROPS HIS PISTOL WHICH PROMPTLY SHOOTS HIM IN THE LEG. A SURVIVAL INSTRUCTOR FALLS ASLEEP WITH HIS REVOLVER IN HIS HAND, IT FIRES, AND HE LOSES A FINGER. A SECURITY POLICEMAN KILLS A FRIEND DURING AN EXERCISE. A HUNTER KILLS A FRIEND ON A HUNTING TRIP. A FATHER LEAVES HIS REVOLVER UNDER HIS PILLOW WHICH IS FOUND BY HIS YOUNG SON WHO KILLS HIS SISTER. IF GUNS ARE NOT HANDLED PROPERLY, THEY WILL GET THE USER OR SOMEONE ELSE -- ACCIDENTALLY.