Leccia Black lit while I try to figure out why Dean posted a gun review with no apparent reason why.
Since when do you have a problem with gun reviews? I presume he posted it because I mentioned having new guns. Morning, Tex.
Did not say I had a problem with gun reviews just can't figure out what he had in mind when posting that particular review. And you did not mention any particular guns or even types of guns.
Morning Raz
Nope, just mentioned that I had two new guns. They are, in fact, an S&W M&P9 Shield and a Sig P220 Equinox.
As for the P30, the glaring red flag that stands out to me is its apparent lack of a decocker. Who makes a DA/SA without a decocker or manual safety? Thumbing the hammer on a semi-auto is begging to put a round where you don't want one.
I guess I over looked that issue. huh.
It's disconcerting to me. It's true that the most important safety on a gun is between the ears. But I want some sort of safety when holstering or unholstering the weapon. It can be internal as on my strikers, or external as on my SA's, or a decocker and manual as on my DA/SA's. But nothing at all? That makes me nervous.
What do you call the safety on a Glock?
Firing pin block, half-cocked striker, trigger safety lever, and my finger in the right place. Pulling the trigger moves the striker block and completes the cocking of the striker. When the gun leaves the holster, it's half-cocked. Same when it goes back in.
...as she would say.
But an order of magnitude less stringent than a manual safety/decocker setup. With a round chambered no preceding motion required, just pull the trigger and bam.
Yet an order of magnitude more stringent than a DA/SA in single-action phase without any safety.
The question becomes, how many orders of magnitude are necessary for a lethal weapon? You could install a trigger lock on your weapon before you holster it, and that would be a couple of orders of magnitude safer...it just defeats the purpose.
So long as a double-action pull is required to make a gun go bang, it is as safe as the gun needs to be, and the rest is up to the shooter. It is an implement of combat, after all, and I carry it so that I can respond quickly and with lethality if, God forbid, the need arises. I don't, in that situation, want any switches to flip or actuators that might fail. I simply want to be able to take up the trigger slack and be ready to go. Once the gun is in front of me and pointed at a threat, the safety is my training, experience, and trigger control. It's getting the gun out of and back into holster when a secondary safety of some sort is valuable. The Glock action provides sufficient safety for those phases of operation.
