Remember the 2 year-old who grabbed the concealed-carry permit holder's gun and fired in a Staples?

[Lizzie Poppet]

18. I can only speak with confidence about my home state (Oregon).

There is no such stipulation about engaging the safety in the law here in Oregon (nor am I aware of any such in other states). I wouldn't mind seeing something added to the law in that regard. I mean...it should be utterly obvious that any carry pistol equipped with a safety should be carried with it engaged...but there never seems to be a shortage of idiots in the world. Such a provision could be simply worded to accommodate the rather wide range of safety types.

I have two pistols I use for carry purposes. the larger (and thus less-often carried: I'm a shrimp, and it's a bit bulky) is a Colt 1911 variant, and it's carried in "condition 1." That means loaded, a round chambered, and cocked...but with both the manual lever safety engaged and the passive grip safety in operation. It's the most common way of carrying a 1911. The other pistol is a compact 9mm that's carried almost the same way, but not cocked, as it has a "double action" trigger that uses the first long, rather stiff trigger pull to cock the hammer. That is in itself a safety, along with the regular lever safety. I don't think a toddler could manage to fire either one, even if they had time to mess with it. Not that I'm enough of an idiot to let either pistol fall into a toddler's hands...

I'd not mind seeing the requirements for issue include a more stringent demonstration of a person's competence, either. Of course, I feel the same way about driver's licenses...