Don't Point Your Guns at Your Children
For whatever reason CNBC has decided to dredge up an old controversy; one over the safety of the Remington Model 700.
Back in the day we worked on these cases and as a baby lawyer I got a lesson from one of the partners to whom I reported. He'd been an officer in the Army and recounted the tale of how the U.S. Army had instilled in him the good habit of never pointing a weapon at anyone he didn't intend to shoot. It came in handy.
He was going to be away from his wife for the first time in their marriage and she, with two young children, was afraid. So, he showed her how to use his Colt .45. Sitting in their bedroom he demonstrated how it worked just as he had to his men. After dropping out the clip he pointed it towards the ceiling saying "whatever you do, don't point it at anything you don't mean to kill. Everything else can fail but if you're pointing it away from everyone you'll be ok." Having forgotten he'd chambered a round he then put a .45 hole through the roof of his house.
The Model 700 has been extremely popular for decades. Nevertheless, the fact that it's not surprising that pick-up trucks have been in more accidents than Bugatti's seems to have been lost on the reporters in "Remington Under Fire: A CNBC Investigation".
