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Summary: Learn how to properly reassemble a handgun in this free gun safety video.
Lee Laster lives in Western Massachusetts & works in the public safety sector. He has been a state certified firearms instructor for the past 6 years. He is also co-founder of...read more
"At that time, all I'm going to do is I'm going to take my slide and line it up here like that. Press that down. Some are more difficult that than others because you have that little trick that you have to be able to perform to get it back in there. All the while knowing that this weapon is clear and it's safe and it can't really harm anyone at this point, not even a spring because I the spring inside of the weapon. Some are more difficult than others. As you can see, it took me a moment to get it back in. It's a little bit different than some of the others, maybe I'm used to using or having. Now again, same way I took it apart, what I want to do is grab my pin and line it up to where I can slide that right in there. Now when I push it through, as you can see, it goes back the way it was and it's there. Now again, to check it, make sure it can't go forward. That tells me that I properly seated the slide on there. Now decock it. If there was a round in there and I didn't want to fire it, I just made that weapon safe. For training purposes again, there are no rounds in there. That's the way you reassemble this specific 9 mm handgun."
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