No. The sign at my range has nothing to do with concealed carry. They have a sign that says “All firearms must be holstered and unloaded with the action open”. Granted, the lord only knows what the owner may have intended for it to say, since the rest of his signs make it pretty clear that he has the writing skills of a second grader.

http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2008/03/26/11/report0326.source.prod_affiliate.57.pdf

I hope you don’t mean CCA. Those are two seperate rules… the open/empty clause at CCA is only for guns that are out of the holster or case.

I agree wholeheartedly with that. Despite Marko’s claim to know that the pilot believed “the approach into Charlotte would be a dandy time to play with his FFDO issue handgun”, no one really knows what happened. Maybe the holster isn’t as safe as some claim. Maybe the pilot just didn’t have the gun in the holster properly when he was putting the lock in place. Hell, if I thought I could be charged with a felony for not having that lock on when I left the cockpit, I’d probably do it early sometimes myself.

Any policy, anywhere, that requires you to handle your firearm unnecessarily is dangerous. The gun store/range where I teach has signs all over saying that all weapons need to be holstered (good rule) with the action open and empty (stupid rule). I’m not going to risk a negligent discharge if they can’t even be bothered to provide some form of clearing station. I’ve even pointed out to them that, should someone be hurt by a ND when someone is trying to abide by their policy, the business is probably liable because the action was a direct result of their policy.

decocker HKs have small, slippery hammers. I wonder if the pilot was unloading for storage, dropped the magazine to unload, forgot about the round in the chamber, decocked with the trigger and slipped?

That would seem to make sense but there would likely be an injury involved too, whacking the thumb hard with the slide…