So my bigger question is what should he have done different? My take is that if you don't train more in what you REALLY want to do in a real life scenario than you do to be "safe", or maybe I should say "politically correct", you will fall victim to your own muscle memory (you use a very believable 3 times the repetitions of the training to un-train). I think there are two solutions to follow. First, at the range we should be practicing from a draw, to the FIRE position with our finger on the trigger, and of course on the range we would then indeed FIRE. Since we tend to get a lot of our practice (I do at least) doing dry weapon draw drills at home, we can be in a safe location with safe direction to point, no ammo in the vicinity, and practice those draws as we do on the range, only with a dry fire to complete. Safety is always important, but when we uncase our gun, or remove it to unload or whatever, we can and should take our time and focus on all four main safety points. We should not be operating predominantly under "muscle memory" in calm, routine situations, the brain must be engaged. In short, training to draw into a fire condition, that is with the finger on the trigger, does not have to be mutually exclusive to safe firearm handling.