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Originally Posted by Oberon
Well, that's where gun training should come in, if Fat Man comes off his stool, then hopefully his Glock will have its safety on and have an empty chamber.
Of course, this increases the time required between draw and fire, but stops you from shooting yourself in the arse.
That being said, I am rather rusty on the nature of modern pistols, and being a Brit we don't get into that really, we prefer knives...   |
Glocks do not have a "flick" safety they have a trigger safety one reason why I do not own one I dislike the idea of any weapon that has no true safety.If you look at a Glock trigger you'll see a protrusion in the center that must be depressed for the weapon to fire Glock calls it integrated trigger safety.I have no idea how likely they are to going off from being dropped.Most modern handguns when the safety is "on" the firing pin can not possibly strike the primer even if you cock that hammer and let it go or drop the gun. Glocks do have "drop safety" so it most likely about as safe as any other modern firearm if dropped with a round in the chamber in other words very unlikely to go off.
Safe to say that most people that carry open or concealed they carry it fully locked and loaded with hammer closed safety on and some even go hammer back safety on with a double action you have a harder trigger pull if the hammer is closed but aiming center mass that does not really matter.Someone said that only a moron would carry a gun with a round in the chamber well tell every coop that you see that he is a moron because they all carry with a round in chamber if the gun is on safe it is very safe.I think that any person who carries a firearm on a regualr basis who does not carry it fully loaded is a moron.If something does happen you have seconds to react it takes way too long to sit there and pull a slide back pretty much your numbers up if the other guy is already shooting at you or with in 15 feet or you charging with a knife your dead.The less steps to have the weapon ready to fire the better since you can carry with round in chamber with safety on safely why would you not? Safety on till you are ready to squeeze the trigger safety on when your done.
The best counter to someone grabbing a pistol from it holster is to have a holster that has a catch that must be tripped in order to release the gun some cops use these but they are not a requirement in most cases the other counter is to lanyard the gun to the holster which is very common with armed forces of course one could get strangled by the lanyard or the entire holster could get pulled off and then the dude has your gun with a holster and belt dangling from it.
Still in a crowded place like in August picture someone could still walk up behind you stick their gun or knife in your back and disarm you if they felt that a sneaky grab would fail.
In a rural area you are more likely to need to fend off an animal than another person as in rural areas the assumption that you are armed is high automatically everyone else will assume that you have a firearm and likely more than one.My friends dad he has an FN FNP-9 9mm in a fanny pack and in his truck seat he has a Bulgarian AK-74 in a case with two 30 round magazines sometimes it is an AR-15 instead but he always has a side arm and a long arm with him and that is not uncommon where I live out in Florida cracker country around here when a cop pulls you over he or she watches you like a hawk and looks into your windows very closely.