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Some guns, shockingly, don't have a safety.
Don’t buy those guns idiots
I have a couple without external safeties. The idea is to carry them in a fitted holster that covers the trigger. Kydex holsters are like $25 or $30 for any given model, it's a no-brainer.
Also, they have internal safeties to prevent firing when dropped. Also, they have long and hard trigger pulls.
You need to pass this wisdom on to thousands and thousands of police and military forces across the planet. Because Glock.
Do you expect Lemmy to disagree with the implication that cops are fundamentally idiots?
LOL, not a Glock fan, but the special forces guys dropped by camp this weekend and I got to shoot one. What can I say? I worked flawlessly, but I had to ask what it was when it was handed to me. Didn't look like the typical black Glock.
Also, if you're an idiot, don't buy any gun! You may think "I'll do what I want, I'll be fine!" This guy probably did, too...
S&W SD9 is one of those. Designed for first time home protection. The trigger has two steps to fire, preventing it from going off if dropped.
What? And those are legal in the US? It's worse than I thought.
Have you ever heard of a revolver? Most of those do not, and are one of the oldest designs still in use.
A gun like that needs the firing pin removed and put in a museum.
LOL that's ridiculous. Revolvers are still great firearms, quite useful for target shooting, hunting, and self defense. A good one can last generations, as they are simple and reliable.
And they are unsafe for the owner and environment.
I remember reading the manual for a new powertool and it said something like this:
Baffled me.
Am I missing something or are there just no gun owners here. This is incredibly disingenuous, and even dangerous, “advice”.
A loaded gun with a round in the chamber should fire when the trigger is pulled, every single time. They should not fire when the trigger is not pulled.
Following any one of the three safety rules prevents 100% of “accidents”. There are no real gun accidents besides catastrophic mechanical failure (which does happen, but usually with shit ammo and shit guns or poorly maintained guns).
Depending on traditional safeties encourages poor gun handling habits and adds precious time to fire when milliseconds count. “Safety-less” pistols will not fire unless the trigger is pulled, period.
Yeah, no shit. And having a safety makes it near impossible to pull the trigger. I don't think anyone here doesn't understand the concept of a safety mechanism.
There's also a safety on some guns, which I personally hate, that allows you to pull the trigger, but the safety disconnects the mechanism from the pin, or blocks the pin from going forward.
Personally I'd rather they just not allow a trigger pull at all. It's especially freaky when you get one that still moves the hammer.
There's loads of people who have no idea how guns work. It's somewhat specialized knowledge.
This too. You'd be bafflef how many people think the shell casing is part of the bullet that's fired. Like little rockets lol.
It's literally that xkcd geologist cartoon, where they think the average person knows the chemical formula for feltzbar and quartz. Everyone vastly overestimates the average person's knowledge level for areas they themselves already understand.
Safty-less pistol owner here. Glock-19 Gen3. Even though the gun is resistant to firing unless the trigger is pulled (ie dropping it) it won't go off. That being said, I never carry with a round chambered because of this. It takes a half a second extra to chamber the round, I'd rather take that than carry a loaded round pointed at my spine or crotch all day.
Yeah, this idea that you are going to just be on the street and need to quickdraw a weapon like ten paces at dawn style is the biggest fucking delusion on top of a mountain of delusions in the gun community.
Watch Active Self Protection and you will find piles examples where a quick draw is necessary with no time to rack the slide.
How to fire a gun without touching the trigger
Modern designed production firearms have internal safeties that prevent the firing pin from moving forward if the trigger isn't pulled.
That video is on single action revolvers which have been out of vogue for over a century.
Skip to 1:40
https://youtu.be/V2RDitgCaD0?si=
For all the gun owners in the thread, GarandThumb recently did a video (youtube gun guy) where he drop tested several handguns and a couple of them actually did go off. As many of you are saying, firearms shouldn't go off without the trigger being pulled and that's for sure the case a large majority of the time.
Frustratingly the article doesn't mention anything about the make, model or condition of the firearm here. It's totally possible it went off just from being dropped.
1911 and 2011 are not drop safe as they do not mitigate the firing pin carrying forward and striking the primer when the gun is dropped. Known issue for a long time with the design of the 1911 and was addressed in the manual of arms. The failure is when the crown of the barrel strikes first. It was deemed acceptable for use as the round was most likely to be discharged when the barrel was pointed at the ground.
Most firearms designed after 1940 are drop safe. The exceptions are the ones that follow the flawed design of the 1911
The sidearm that replaced the 1911 in military service the Beretta 92 was, some say, primarily selected as it was hammer fired and drop safe so as to stay as close to the then current manual of arms and sidearm doctrine.
He almost certainly tested the very few modern handguns known to have that problem, for which they rightly got a lot of hate. You'd have to link the specific video, I don't watch GT.
Wild West Pimp Style says they're back in vogue.