How to safely lock back a firearm slide to visually confirm the chamber is empty. The technique requires precise hand and thumb positioning, pushing the slide straight back into the rear notch, and maintaining tension to keep it open for inspection.
You did is you grab the bottom of your left hand, you put your thumb here, and you push the button into the grip, and you just put this down. We don't care how it goes down. So come here, we want to see this because you need to see where everything's going. So now your thumb goes from here to here. A lot of people just try to go like that, but this is straight. So I want to move my palm over so it's easier to push that up. When you're doing it, it's going to go straight up and down. Your hand comes over the top, you push back, your thumb goes up, you let go with this hand, and then you let go with your thumb. That is it. Now, for you, so you get to see it because you just want to see everything, what's happening is when this is going all the way back, this is pushing up into that little notch. I have to hold it there until I let go, so there's tension holding that in. And that's what keeps it open so that we can see it is empty. And that's everything. Now we're gonna put it down.
