7. SAFE GUN HANDLING
You should be fully familiar with the proper and safe handling of your gun. Bear in mind that your new gun
features a high muzzle velocity, this requires extra care. In respect to the basic rules of safe gun handling it
is to be understood that every touching of the gun is to be interpreted as gun handling.
• Always treat a gun as if it was loaded.
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Always put the safety of a gun on "safe" when loading it so that there can be
no unintentional discharge. Keep your finger away from the trigger, it should be straight and
should rest on the trigger guard. The trigger is only to be touched for firing.
• Only use the kind of projectiles suitable for your gun.
• Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction.
• This gun may only be discharged in your own house, on authorized shooting ranges and
inside enclosed private property. It is to be made sure that no projectile can leave the enclosed
property.
• The maximum range of the projectiles may exceed 100 metres, this is to be kept in mind.
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Never transport a loaded gun. Only load your gun when you intend to fire it.
• Never aim your airgun at persons or animals. Avoid ricochets. Never fire at smooth,
hard surfaces or water.
• Before you discharge your gun, make sure that target and surrounding area are safe.
•
Always check your gun before you transport it or take it over from another
person, it must be unloaded.
• Make sure that you always have full control over the muzzle of your gun, even if
you stumble or fall down.
• Safety shooting glasses should always be worn when firing the gun.
• Always store your gun in a safe place and in unloaded condition. Unauthorized
persons (persons not familiar with the use of guns, children and minors) must
not have access to it, ammunition is to be kept in a separate place.
• The gun together with its operating instructions may only be handed over to
persons who have reached the age of 18 (or older) and who are fully familiar with
the handling of it.
• Modifications or repairs of guns are only to be performed by authorized agencies
or by a skilled gunsmith.
• Never leave a loaded gun unattended.
• Only unloaded guns are to be handed over to another person.
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