child Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security Promoting safe firearm handling and storage practices among all firearm owners, especially those with children. www.tn.gov/safety/handgunmain.shtml Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security PO BOX 945 Nashville, TN 37202 [email protected]CHAMBER FLAG PROCEDURES: • Remove magazine from the firearm. • Completely clear the handgun and lock the slide to the rear. • Examine the magazine and chamber to assure no live ammunition. • Place the chamber flag in the empty chamber and release the slide. • Insert a loaded magazine in the weapon. • If the firearm is needed in an emergency, it merely requires charging the weapon (pulling the slide back and releasing). child safety Tennessee Department of Safety, Authorization No. 349522, 50,000 copies, January 2013. This public document was promulgated at a cost of $.04 per copy.
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Tennessee Department ofSafety & Homeland Security
Promoting safe firearmhandling and storage
practices among all firearmowners, especially those
• Completely clear thehandgun and lock theslide to the rear.
• Examine the magazineand chamber to assureno live ammunition.
• Place the chamber flagin the empty chamberand release the slide.
• Insert a loadedmagazine in theweapon.
• If the firearm is neededin an emergency, itmerely requirescharging the weapon(pulling the slide backand releasing).
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Tennessee Department of Safety, Authorization No. 349522,50,000 copies, January 2013. This public document waspromulgated at a cost of $.04 per copy.
Chamber flags are small, inexpensiveitems used as an added safety measure
while transporting and storingsemiautomatic handguns. Place a flag
in an empty chamber as a visualconfirmation that the chamber is clear.
THE DEPARTMENT STRESSES THEMINIMUM SECURITY OF CHAMBERFLAGS. WHILE NOT A REPLACEMENT
FOR SAFES, CASES, OR OTHERSECURITY DEVICES, THESE “PLUGS”ARE MERELY A DETERRENT AND THEFIRST LEVEL OF LIMITING EXPOSURE
TO SMALL CHILDREN.
If the firearm is not in direct control, theowner must absolutely ensure that it isinaccessible to a child. The departmenthas begun distributing these items togun owners at gun shows across the
state. We demonstrate a wide variety ofsecurity devices (suggested below)