When hunting, make sure you identify your target beyond any doubt before firing. Wear fluorescent orange clothing to identify yourself clearly to other hunters. Never shoot at a noise, or at movement in bushes. You don't know for sure what it is. Do not shoot at targets on water, or into the air.
Bullets can ricochet off water and keep going.
A driver was once killed by a bullet from a Lee-Enfield rifle that was fired at a target on water more than a mile away. A bullet that goes up will come down with enough force to inflict injury. Don't make the same mistake yourself. The lock will not necessarily prevent an accidental discharge , and it can easily let an assailant kill or hurt you before you can unlock it . Handgun Control Inc.'s own lawyer Dennis Henigan, and Maryland governor Parris Glendening, proved this in public demonstrations.