To this day, if someone handed me a gun and told me it was unloaded, I'd probably take their word for it - right before I gave it back to them. I know nothing about how to handle firearms, how to open chambers, how to deal with a safety, which kind of firearm has them and which don't, or what they look like. I don't know what it feels like to pull a trigger, or how to properly hold a firearm that I don't plan on shooting.
I wouldn't ever be found at a shooting range. There are more firearms owned by Americans, than there are Americans who own firearms. Millions of Americans don't possess any firearms at all, and have no interest in them. Assuming that "everyone" knows that you have to open a gun to check for ammunition is a pretty horrible assumption. Especially since there are millions of us who have no idea how to even do that and are NOT interested in looking it up to satisfy your argument that we should know.
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