There are good ideas, and there are bad ideas; and then there are ...
Well, and then there is this.
"This is the original Barrel Button. It can be attached to any shoe or boot that has laces (snap closure). It allows you to securely rest the muzzle of your unloaded shotgun. [...]"
This is such an unspeakably awful idea that I really have no words to express the massive fail here. Much though I'm opposed to frivolous liability suits, I have to agree with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robhansen's comments:
If I were on a jury, I have to admit, I'd be torn about whether to hold the Barrel Button liable for someone losing their foot.
On the one hand, your own damn fault for letting the muzzle cross your foot.
On the other hand, given there is literally no safe way to use the product…
For those of you among my readers who are not initiates of the proper ways of safe gun-handling, allow me to cite the first two of the four firearms safety laws propounded by the late, lamented Col. Jeff Cooper (USMC, Ret.):
- All guns are always loaded. (Or, to clarify his intention, always treat all firearms as though loaded at all times.)
- Never let the muzzle cover anything you are unwilling to destroy.
Which makes a device intentionally designed to rest the muzzle of a firearm (that you were CERTAIN was unloaded) securely upon a part of your body ... yeah. It's that stupid.
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