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Useless Gun features
Mr. Perfect
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Do you find loaded chamber indicators to be useful, generally? I've been thinking about this and, especially given the fact some of them operate in opposite fashion from others, I generally think they're pretty much useless.
What other features do you find useless?
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And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
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Any gun that has the ability to accept a key in order to be locked.
The worst and perhaps a really famous useless feature is the Gen 2 Springfield Armory “Grip Zone”.
I will never own a gun with either a lock or a “grip zone”.
Cross button safety on a hammer fired gun (exposed hammer).
And while it may not be useless, it does look tacky. Pressed checkering.
I feel loaded chamber indicators have a purpose. Mainly for reassurance and especially in a combat situations.
The trigger lock on SW revolvers is my choice for the most worthless.
The round counter on the side of the M41A pulse rifle.
Who has time to check the counter while blasting acid spewing aliens?
SITES!! 😎
You hold your gun sideways to shoot, don't cha.
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While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
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Any type of engraving, lettering, or otherwise indicating - "Glock".
Come on! You knew "someone" was going to go there.
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An empty chamber
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Right over the bow!!! I wouldn't worry, though, it'll take him a minute or two to de-jam that 1911...
I agree with the cross bolt safety on hammer guns the key locks on a lot of the guns to be more PC all BS
give me a minute before you finish robbing, beating, and stealing maybe even killing me , I have to find my key
From a left handed shooter's perspective, any firearm with safety/decocker set up for a right hand shooter from the factory....put an ambi-safety on it. Over the years I have spent a good chunk of change putting ambi-safeties on my 1911's as well as some HK's and AR's...
Reduced capacity mags.
That's funny
My one left handed rifle just feels funny. So used to right-handed safety that left feels awkward.
Great point William. If I was a manufacturer, I would think about left vs. right handedness, as well as eye dominance, and make a gun as versatile as I could, to make it as attractive as possible to the majority of the buyers w/o any manufacturing problems.
Screw in sling studs in a plastic stock. Those aren't lasting with any real use.
"Lawyer Triggers", you know, the ones on expensive guns that have 7-8 lb trigger pull and 1/4" of creep. Thank the Lord for Timney and the other after-market trigger manufacturers! I have a Ruger M77 MKII in 308 that has 2 lb Timney in it that breaks like glass. I don't let anyone borrow it, and my Grandson has been promised that it will be his some day. After I'm gone, my liability is too.
No accessory rail. Thats useless.
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Taurus useless gun feature
If a gun folds in half and it becomes a giant "V" shape that is as wide as your body.....it might as well not fold at all.
Complicated sights on a small, pocket sized, carry gun....they are built to be a close quarters defense gun, but some have target sights on them for some strange reason???
That stooped safety on smiths
Are you referring to the lock they put on some of their revolvers, because the safeties on Smiths aren't all that different from other guns, to my knowledge.
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While sifting through my ashes
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And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
safety on the trigger
+1 only thing worse, got a knight muzzleloader with a split hammer safety and crossbolt safety, I even super glued he center of the hammer but it doesn't stay, one of the most agravating things I ever used.........
I must say that I have never used the magazine cut-off on a Browning Auto 5.
Forward assist and dust shield. 👹
On a sporting rifle, of course.
I think the trigger in a trigger is about as dumb as it gets. It doesn't really solve any problem I think. It also tends to make trigger pulls worse than they otherwise might be in my opinion.
My little CM-9 has a long trigger pull for safety purposes. It is also extremely smooth though and I find it to shoot very well considering it's intended use and sights.
Magazine safeties.