Going back through AsoIku looking for frame grabs, when I got to episode 6 Manami drove me crazy with her lax gun safety discipline. Like she doesn't have any. (For someone who has been a gun otaku her whole life, it's a bit amazing she would be so careless.)

She's sitting in an A&W with Aoi, swinging a pistol around which she's holding with her finger on the trigger. It's lucky she didn't kill anyone. Actually, since it's loaded with Cathean anti-matter rounds, it would be impossible to hurt anyone. But she could have put holes in the restaurant.

Anyway, that doesn't matter. Shall we rehearse the four rules?

Treat every gun as if it is loaded with live ammunition, even if you think it's empty.

Never point a gun at anything unless you want to destroy it.

Keep your finger off the trigger and out of the trigger guard until you're ready to shoot.

Be aware of your target, and what's behind it.

She's violating everyone of those rules in that image. But I guess she can't know what the director himself doesn't know, eh?

UPDATE: In that episode she points that gun, with her finger on the trigger, variously at Aoi, at herself, and at Kio. Aoi was teaching Manami how to shoot; I don't understand why she didn't set Manami straight about it. (But Aoi, too, can't know what the director doesn't know.)

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