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Originally Posted by DNSB
I'm tempted to ask how someone with no vision manages to aim at a target without substantial and likely not too portable technological assistance. Or does someone else aim the weapon and the blind person simply pulls the trigger?
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The only Range Safety Officer I've talked to, claimed that there were fewer accidents with blind people, than with sighted people. Apparently, blind people aren't as prone to doing stupid things, such as cleaning their weapon, without first ensuring that it is unloaded.
Generally, blind people don't shoot long guns. Regardless, the target has a beeper, that the shooter can focus on.
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I don't know if it was the specific range, or the usual practice, but before anybody could should at that range, they had to pass a safety course. Included in that course were:
* Field stripping and cleaning your weapon;
* Close range disarming of attackers with guns;
* How not to be disarmed;
* Basic First Aid;
* Bullet extraction and cleaning of gunshot wounds;
All of that, before you were allowed to fire anything.