This is the very reason ALL of my firearms (sans revolvers) have a manual safety. I also spend a lot of time practicing drawing my firearm while turning the safety off...while sighting the target. As a guitar player for many years, if you practice something over and over again with your hands and fingers, muscle memory begins to take over and it eventually becomes second nature. When I grip my semi-autos, my thumb automatically sweeps the safety down as I'm drawing. My dad taught me the same thing on rifles as a kid. If I'm carrying with a round in the chamber, the safety is on...and revolvers are un-cocked with hefty DA triggers.


This type of event is also the very reason that my wife will not carry her CCW in her purse. She hardly even carries a purse at all. We don't even have kids. Purses get snatched, left in bathroom stalls, lost, etc. Hard to have access to a CCW when you're separated from your purse.