I had some interesting reading on the KR training blog today, which led me to Kathy Jackson's (@Pax) blog. The discussion was about muzzle direction during reloads. Kathy argued that keeping the pistol pointing into the berm is inherently safer in case of a discharge during the reload, and cited many occurrences of slam fire as one of the reasons for this safety. Karl demonstrated there wasn't really any time penalty for doing so.
"There are far more instances where a gun fires upon slide forward (eg, “slam fire”) than I thought, and many instances where people in a hurry or new to the gun suffer a sympathetic squeeze reaction and fire the gun when they intend to either drop a slide or release a magazine. In most of these cases, the only thing that prevented serious injury or death was that the user fortuitously (sometimes deliberately, but more often fortuitously) pointed the gun in a safe direction."
I am not so much interested in arguing about muzzle direction during reloads, although it is fine if the thread heads that direction. I am interested in how much or how often folks have seen slam fires with pistols? I never have. Is this a thing in gamer set ups?