Manual

INSPECTING YOUR

PISTOL

When you inspect your pistol, you should first check for yourself

to insure that it is unloaded. To do this, grasp the pistol with your

finger off the trigger and outside the trigger guard

, (Figure 5)

point the muzzle in a safe direction. Depress the magazine

release, and remove the magazine.

With the muzzle still pointing in a safe direction, grasp the

serrated sides of the slide from the rear with the thumb and

fingers and briskly draw the slide fully rearward in order to

extract any cartridge from the barrel chamber and clear it from

the pistol. Do not obstruct the ejection port because doing so

can interfere with ejection of a cartridge and thereby creates the

risk of exploding an unchambered cartridge and possible injury.

In order to lock the slide in the open position, allow the slide to

move slightly forward from the rearmost position while pressing

upward on the slide stop. You are now able to safely check the

barrel chamber and bore visually for any obstructions.You

must follow this procedure every time your firearm is inspected,

cleaned, handed to another person, transported or stored.

Unload the magazine by holding it with the bullet end of the

cartridge pointing away from you and others and pressing each

cartridge forward and out of the magazine.

FIGURE 5

DO NOT BLOCK EJECTION PORT!