How to Safely Store a Rome 22caliber Revolver

Video Transcript

"I still have my oil rag here, and my firearm, my revolver, and I have my storage bag here. This is kind of a little canvas bag that's silicone impregnated. This is just what I like to keep my handguns in if I'm going to store them for a while inside my safe. A general safety rule is, I know that I haven't used ammunition anywhere near this revolver during my cleaning process, but what I like to do is just do a final check of the firearm itself. What I'm going to do is just I'm going to repeat, I'm going to open up that loading gate and I'm going to take it to just past quarter cock and I'm going to physically spin this cylinder. I'm just going to, just like before, I've passed up six chambers, I know there's only technically six chambers, but I pass it up just to make sure that I couldn't have overlooked something. Then I shut the loading gate and you can see here that I'm in quarter cock. I'm just going to take this hammer all the way back and I'm going to put my finger on the trigger and I'm just going to release this slowly. You can actually put your thumb in here to kind of block, just in case it were to slip. It wouldn't feel that good, but it would help to block. I'd just bring that hammer back down into the position. What I'm going to do now is one final wipe down. This is when I try not to touch any metal parts, again with my bare hand. I'm going to take my right hand and I'm going to open up my handgun bag here, and I'm just going to set it inside here with the rag. Then I'm going to pick it back up with the rag and I set it with barrel, the top of the handgun to the bottom of the bag. I'm just going to shut the bag, I'm going to zip it up and we're good to go. Secondly, on a safety note, most bags come with, now, a little luggage lock and I recommend always, if you're going to have these up for a little while, put the luggage lock on even if you're going to store it inside your safe or you're going to store it somewhere out of reach. It's, basically, just going to give you that one extra step of safety knowing that it's that much harder to get into what you have. We're going to lock that and then we're good to go. We're just going to go put that in the safe and we have a safe clean firearm."