Weapons Handling and Range Safety
Weapons handling and range safety tests whether you can be trusted with a loaded weapon. The exam favours the four safety rules, the clearing procedure, and range commands.
Four rules
Treat every weapon as loaded. Never point it at anything you do not intend to shoot. Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. Know your target and what lies behind it.
Clearing
Remove the magazine, select safe, open the action, inspect the chamber, and show clear. For the G3 and AK-pattern rifles, keep the muzzle in a safe direction throughout. Only then release the action and close the dust cover.
Range
Range commands are obeyed at once. On Cease fire, stop firing, keep the weapon pointing downrange, and wait. On a misfire, keep the muzzle downrange, wait the prescribed time, then unload and report. Never look down the barrel.
Worked example
A rifle is handed to you and the giver says it is empty. You still keep the muzzle down, remove the magazine, open the action, inspect the chamber, and show clear before accepting it. The reasoning: the rule is about the weapon's actual state, not the giver's word.
Traps
Trusting the word empty, resting your finger on the trigger, crossing your own body with the muzzle, and turning around with a loaded weapon. On the range, do not remove ear defenders or leave the firing point without command.