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Saftey on Trigger - the new wave ?
gotstolefrom
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First, I'm not discounting gun locks, they are excellent and necessary, I am just not mentioning them.
I consider a safety as prevention of an accidental discharge by causing you to take a deliberate separate step from just pulling the trigger to disengage the safety. If an inexperienced person comes along and picks up my 1911, and pulls the trigger it will not discharge, because the safety is on. Or, when Uncle Bob crosses my fence and the trigger gets pulled by a twig or loose end of barbed wire, it will not discharge because the saftey is on. You know the list goes on.....
There are handguns where the 'safety' is a small blade extending through the trigger. When you insert a finger into the trigger guard, the safety is dis-engaged by your finger lying near or against the trigger. I may be slow, but I have noticed long guns having this same 'inside the trigger' safety.
I can see advantages to this set-up for select uses...for me it is like not having a safety at all. Since I do not currently own a gun with this style of safety, am I missing something in the way it operates ?
Thanks in advance for the education.
I consider a safety as prevention of an accidental discharge by causing you to take a deliberate separate step from just pulling the trigger to disengage the safety. If an inexperienced person comes along and picks up my 1911, and pulls the trigger it will not discharge, because the safety is on. Or, when Uncle Bob crosses my fence and the trigger gets pulled by a twig or loose end of barbed wire, it will not discharge because the saftey is on. You know the list goes on.....
There are handguns where the 'safety' is a small blade extending through the trigger. When you insert a finger into the trigger guard, the safety is dis-engaged by your finger lying near or against the trigger. I may be slow, but I have noticed long guns having this same 'inside the trigger' safety.
I can see advantages to this set-up for select uses...for me it is like not having a safety at all. Since I do not currently own a gun with this style of safety, am I missing something in the way it operates ?
Thanks in advance for the education.
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I wouldn't consider them a safety, but they must serve some purpose even if it's only to satisfy a liability concern promulgated by our personal injury attorney friends. But perhaps someone with precise info can inform us.
As far as using my head, it has been 40 years since my first, and last, AD.
IT'S NOT ME I'M WORRIED ABOUT .... IT'S THE GUY NEXT TO ME.
My only hands on knowledge of this type of safety is limited to about an hour at the range using a borrowed handgun.
My take it from the responses .......It is no better than I thought it was.....worse than nothing.
i have been tooling around with buying a new gun and i finally did today but i have been shooting my buddies xd and thats what i baught . the trigger has the safety "blade" in it but also like the 1911 has a grip safety if the grip is not depressed the trigger will not operate
i could see with out the grip safety it being nothing more then another step to go through before shooting and obsolete
Thats my opinion on the subject
Ben
I saw a guy ( a cop at that) shoot himself in the side of the foot at a range one time doing that with a glock 9mm -- He wasn't in my group of people but was a couple of benches down the line and practicing his "quickdraw" with a friend.
I personally don't like those type and think they are the worst type around young shooters.