I don’t really blame James May for this. My gut is telling me he’s never held a firearm before – feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
This is however a really scary example of Bad Gun Handling and it call could have been avoided with a simple safety brief.
Anytime I take a new shooter out I start with a safety briefing before they ever touch the weapon. It only takes a few minutes to go over the basics. Don’t point the gun at anything you don’t plan on destroying. Treat every weapon likes its loaded. Keep your finger off the trigger.
If whomever had handed that shotgun had gone over just those simple rules this never would have happened…
