I wish there was a way that yours popped up at the top of my feed so I could kick you in the berries everyday

But doesn't that increase your liability as the store/range owner for an accident involving a firearm that you handled but knew nothing about?

It brings to mind another incident here in the Houston area where I man was shot and killed at a local shooting range when an employee was working on a customer's firearm. The bullet traveled through the store wall and hit a customer who was walking across the parking lot. It would be the possibility of someone having modified a firearm and made it unsafe that would worry me most. That's something that cannot be determined when the firearm is carried in a case. Having it carried in the open by the owner with the bolt open would make me feel more comfortable if I were the store/range owner.

Let's not also not overlook the basic rule of firearm safety that firearms should always be handed to someone with the bolt open and an open chamber visible to them, which cannot be done when a cased firearm.

I wish some of the hunter safety courses did a better job on gun safety. Guys hunting rabbits in heavy cover, or quail hunters spread apart in heavy cover. Folks can lose awareness of where the other hunters are located. That accounts for a lot of mishaps. Duck boats and vehicles in "run and gun" hunting where guns are being taken in and out of vehicles- another primary source of accidents. Loading and unloading guns at a vehicle, a problem. Uncased guns in camp with kids running around. Pulling loaded guns by rope up into a tree stand.
The other issue, how the safety mechanism works on a firearm. All guns maybe dangerous but some systems are better than others. A Bolt Action if a boxed or closed magazine- you have to unload running rounds in and out of the action, same with lever actions. Especially older guns that didn't have any cross bolt/lock type safeties.

But doesn't that increase your liability as the store/range owner for an accident involving a firearm that you handled but knew nothing about?

It brings to mind another incident here in the Houston area where I man was shot and killed at a local shooting range when an employee was working on a customer's firearm. The bullet traveled through the store wall and hit a customer who was walking across the parking lot. It would be the possibility of someone having modified a firearm and made it unsafe that would worry me most. That's something that cannot be determined when the firearm is carried in a case. Having it carried in the open by the owner with the bolt open would make me feel more comfortable if I were the store/range owner.

Let's not also not overlook the basic rule of firearm safety that firearms should always be handed to someone with the bolt open and an open chamber visible to them, which cannot be done when a cased firearm.