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Originally Posted by DataPimp
Yes but the very first step ejects any chambered round. This is why this makes no sense to me.
~Edited to say: Post #21 answered my question.
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I can't think of any armorer classes I've attended, involving pistols or rifles with removable magazines, which ever listed disassembly/unloading instructions with the manual retraction & cycling of the slide as the first step in the process.
Instead, it's the removal of the magazine (where the bullets live) that occurs first, and then the retraction of the slide to empty the chambered round.
There have seemingly been no particular shortage of gun owners/users who cycled the slide first, extracting & ejecting the chambered round .... and then allowed the slide to go forward on a loaded magazine, chambering another round ... and then they removed the magazine, and pulled the trigger (if required for field-stripping, by design), only to have the result being a very loud noise and a hole in something/someone.
Even the owner safety manual lists removing the magazine as the first step.
