How To Insert A Handgun Magazine

Video Transcript

"Okay we just did how to load a magazine with rounds. What I'm going to do real quick is again show you the proper way to load a magazine into the real well of a firearm. Say if I had my magazine loaded capacity with the rounds that I needed at which time as I'm holding that firearm my hand is along the back strap of the firearm. The flat side of the magazine goes to the back side of the magazine, well kind of common of something to remember it's just like when you're loading rounds the flat side goes along the flat side. Something with the firearm when you go to load a magazine if the person is not experienced they may turn it around this way. It won't go but so far and you don't want to force it because you'll get it jammed in there and you have to send it to the factory to get it taken care of. So the flat side of the magazine goes to the back side of the back strap so if I want to insert this magazine all I would do is that, give it a nice little tap on the bottom. At which time if there's a round in there and I want it, chamber that round all I'm going to do is release my slide, that force just pushed around into the chamber. Into the barrel of that weapon and now it's ready to be fired, I have the round in the chamber I'm locked and loaded ready to go. For some reason I don't want to shoot or there's no threat or whatever and I wanted to unload my firearm or not even unload the firearm. But unload the round that's in there, injection that's exactly what I do, drop the magazine first and all I'm going to do is pull the slide to the rear. If there's a round I'm going to fly out once it does lock the slide to the rear and do a physical and visual check. Stick your finger in the barrel, look down in there, you can never be to safe even if you do this hundred times and you may know that there's nothing in there. It doesn't hurt to triple check and quadruple check because you can never ever be too safe when it comes to firearms. Sometimes it only takes one mistake and that would be the end of it, so we would like to very, very safe and careful when we use firearms and working with them. So that's the way you would insert a magazine and to inject a magazine, insert it, inject it."