SAFETY RULES AND SAFETY CATCHES
Doubts Dispelled For Deerstalker (Mew Zealand Press Association) NELSON, October 13. A cynical Nelson deerstalker left a firearms safety ■ lecture last night a much wiser shooter. Mr G. G. Kelly, of Wellington, ballistics expert in the New Zealand Police Force for many years, was demonstrating that the safety catches cn .22 and .303 rifles could be useless in certain circumstances.
While he was talking a deerstalker in the front row commented “bosh.”
Mr Kelly smiled, jarred the cocked rifle he- was holding on the floor, and. with a deafening noise in the crowded room the weapon, with safety catch on, discharged. “Safety rules are more important than safety catches,” Mr Kelly wryly declared.
The rifle was loaded with a blank cartridge.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29336, 15 October 1960, Page 4
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