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Girls with Guns, Wednesday, After Classes

"Welcome back," Elena said. "I hope no one showed up last week, because I was in the Bahamas and I kind of figured everyone else was, too."

And if not, hopefully they enjoyed themselves sticking around here.

"This week, I'm gonna be one of those annoying people who beats you over the head with safety crap. There are rules up on the wall, and they're important. Whether you grew up with guns or you've never handled one before, you need to read the rules and follow them. It's when people get too comfortable that they start getting lax, and that's when people get hurt."

She held out her own handgun. "It's not loaded," she said, "because your gun should never be loaded until you're ready to use it. Here in the range, your gun should be unloaded until you're ready to shoot. At the same time, always assume the gun is loaded. Even if you just took the ammo out. Don't point your weapon at anyone, ever, and make sure when you're loading or unloading, that the gun isn't unintentionally pointing at someone else."

"This," she said, turning the gun to demonstrate, "is what's called the safety. The safety needs to be on, even if you've unloaded the gun, even if you're just walking over to the target. Loading the gun and taking the safety off should be last two things you do before firing, and unloading and putting it back on need to be the first two things you do when you're done."

"So." Elena nodded to the group. "For this week's activity, first, go over there and read the rules. Even if you just read them on your way in. Humor me. Then: pair up. Show someone else your weapon's safety mechanism, and how to turn it off and on. Also show them that your weapon is unloaded. If the weapon you brought with you doesn't have a safety on it, then borrow one of the ones provided here. Then we can get to the fun part, actually shooting. Sound good?"

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Eagerly listening to the SAFETY LECTURE. Or else rolling your eyes because safety lectures are boooooring.

Claire Bennet

Jack Burton

Leda

Makita

Naomi Wildman

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Claire was there and, yes, still in a rather excellent mood.

Please, he'd heard the safety lecture before. He was here to shoot things, not be safe!

Yes, she's serious. Go read the rules that have been up on the wall since Triela posted them, and then find someone else in the group and show her your safety.

After Claire re-read the rules, she looked for someone to demonstrate her gun safety with.

"This is ridiculous," Jack said.

And showed her his gun. Not dirty. Safety on!

Claire shrugged. "It's important," she said, before demonstrating her own proficiency with safety measures.

"Right, it is." He didn't disagree. "Think this'll make her happy, then?"

"I guess so," Claire said. "You understand the rules right?"

"Sure. Easy." Vaguely.

If eye-rolling could produce power, Jack could probably light up half of Dayton. But there he was, reading the rules and waving a safety-on gun...probably in a not-safe manner.

He was waving his gun around. Elena had to hope it wasn't loaded.

She cleared her throat. "It's not a toy," she said coldly. "Handle your weapon responsibly, or leave."

This was non-negotiable.

(OOC: no, seriously, she will kick him out)

"It's good," he affirmed. "See? Safety's on, it's unloaded."

"Is it?" Algren stepped up behind Elena, his eyebrows furrowed as he held his hand toward Jack, for the gun. "Let's take a look."

It should be noted that, loaded or not, one of the rules of the range was very clearly written; Always treat the gun as loaded.

Jack was officially In Shit.

"It is," Jack repeated, demonstrating that there was not even a magazine in the weapon, the breech exposed.

"Good. Now give it to me and get the hell out."

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And Algren was never the sort of man to take backtalk from anybody. He'd been shot too many times to allow anyone to behave, even for a moment, as though time spent in the shooting range was anything less serious than a privilege that could be taken away at the first sign of disrespect.

Jack stared at him for a moment, handed him the weapon, and marched out, eyes narrowed. Fine.

Algren gave his head a shake, regarding the weapon in his hand before turning to resume supervising the students who weren't acting like preschoolers at playtime.

"Children."

Elena had faded back to let Algren handle the matter, since he was faculty and she was just the girl temporarily helping to run the club.

"Sorry?" she said. "Or, uh, thank you. Sir."

Something in there. She wasn't sure why she was apologizing, exactly. It just seemed like she should.

Algren glanced her way, and then gave a shake of his head, offering her a faint quirk of a smile before carefully crouching down to put the gun away with the rest of the unused ones.

The going was slow. He'd been on the receiving end of too many guns all at once to make anything ever resembling a casual motion, anymore.

"You haven't got anything to be sorry for," he replied. "Actually, I ought to commend you for making certain that your classmates are aware that the range has rules. And for good reason."

"I wish I could say I was just gung-ho about safety," she said, biting her lip. "But I didn't know what to cover this week, and you said last time that safety's never a bad idea, so ... that seemed like a good topic."

She paused, still chewing her lip, before blurting out, "I feel a bit like a hypocrite. If I have my weapon and I'm not at the range, it's probably loaded. I just unload it again once I get here to follow the rules."

And, well, that bit about cutting corners when you were too sure of yourself had largely been to remind herself that just because she trusted herself with a gun didn't mean she could give herself a pass on the details.

"Between you and me? On the rare occasion that I carry a gun around, myself, odds are that that it can be fired at least once," Algren replied. "I'm willing to bet a month's wages that neither of us are prone to waving a gun around, loaded or not, as though we're trying to swat flies with it."

When he had a gun on him, nowadays, he had it for a reason. That helped, some.

"Mine's usually concealed," she agreed. "Safety on, but tucked in the most accessible holster that's not immediately visible."

There were serious advantages to the Turk uniforms. You could hide all sorts of weapons without raising an eye. Civilian clothes made it harder.

"Do you think we should cover sharpshooting, one week? Sniper rifles, long-distance and high accuracy, that kind of thing?"

"Provided strict measures are taken to ensure that it's being done safely, I might be able to be coerced into arranging for an outing, for something like that," he noted. "So, no setting up tin cans in a farmer's field, or anything of the like."

Leda read the rules, and then just kind of zoned out, staring at her gun.

Makita read the rules, lips moving silently as she went over them. Then she grabbed a pencil and scrawled at the bottom:

If you do not properly clean and care for your sidearm, you do not deserve to fire it.

Someone had definite opinions on the matter.

That accomplished, she sat down and proceeded to dismantle her Samsonovs. If anyone wanted to pair up with her to discuss safety, that was fine, but Makita needed to take care of her babies first and foremost.

Way more fun than safety crap.

When he is here. He is probably glad that they're actually covering safety rules.

Algren was there, arms crossed in front of his chest, ready to read any students the riot act if they looked for even a second that they weren't taking the gun safety rules seriously.

He was there to keep the students from killing one another. He wouldn't hesitate to forcibly eject them from the range if they weren't being cooperative.

Welcome to, "I have no idea what to post this week!"

UM .... SAFETY LECTURE TIEM.

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