Submission by Anonymous.
I would totally buy this, but for the whole ‘scratching head with loaded, cocked gun’ thing in TGG. John, you better have taught that man some gun safety along the way.
Untrue, though! Sherlock is a great shot. All that spinning around and shooting behind his back into the smiley face in the wall when he was bored? That’s ridiculous trick-shooting kind of stuff. (And John is supposed to be a better shot than Sherlock, which constantly makes me wonder when the hell a doctor in the RAMC had time to get that good with a gun…)
But then, of course, knowing how to operate a gun isn’t synonymous with following gun safety. (If only.) Just because you know all about cars and driving them doesn’t mean you don’t decide to do 90 mph on the highway and tailgate people. So…y’know. He’s just kind of an ass. Alert the press.
Though, while the first rule of gun safety is “Don’t point at anything you’re not willing to kill,” the Sig really was unlikely to blow his fool head off, even if he did have it cocked (I don’t remember seeing whether he did). For a model as reliable as the Sig Sauer P226, misfires and random discharges are extremely rare (though overly exuberant finger-twitches are another issue…moron).
Now, what’s really stupid is both of them constantly carrying around a loaded gun in their pockets or down the waistband of their trousers. One day, John is going to bend over and that thing’ll fall down the back of his pants. Unless we’re supposed to assume he’s got a pocket holster for it, but they’ve never shown us one…