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I added a "fifth" rule, Never clean or work on a firearm when ammunition with live ammo in the area.
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Why would you stop there?
No ammo in the same room where one is dry firing.
No dry firing without an adequate back stop.
Open the chamber on your shotgun before crossing a fence (when you're alone)
Don't leave a loaded firearm leaning against a tree.
Never pick up a gun without checking the chamber to verify that it's unloaded. Even if you recently did so.
etc, etc, etc.
If we wrote a new rule for all the individual circumstances that have caused gun accidents, there'd be no end to them. And if you look close enough, the BASIC rules probably already apply.
Just my thoughts on the matter.