They’re intended as a safety to reduce the chances of a malfunction, or a dropped gun causing it to discharge. It’s not intended as a safety in terms of accidentally pulling the trigger.
I’ve always heard that safeties provide a false sense of security and complacency. Not sure if there has been any study on that. Trigger safeties are intended to prevent discharges if the gun is dropped or something impacts the trigger.
The Glock has 3 safeties that prevent it from firing unintentionally. They are extremely reliable but they do not have a locking safety. A locking safety is great when the gun is being handled by someone that shouldn’t but this should never be the case. The #1 safety on a gun is the owner. No amount of mechanism on a gun can override the owner. A gun is a tool. I am all for more gun control because there is a gun problem but there is also a people problem and we can’t just blame everything on the guns.
It might have a trigger safety, but those are pretty damn useless.
What… What’s even the point? You can’t pull the trigger, unless you pull the trigger? This is one of the most useless things I’ve ever seen
Meant to prevent misfires. The trigger doesn’t directly cause firing: there’s a hammer to strike the primer
They’re intended as a safety to reduce the chances of a malfunction, or a dropped gun causing it to discharge. It’s not intended as a safety in terms of accidentally pulling the trigger.
So it’s a safer, not a safety?
I’ve always heard that safeties provide a false sense of security and complacency. Not sure if there has been any study on that. Trigger safeties are intended to prevent discharges if the gun is dropped or something impacts the trigger.
The Glock has 3 safeties that prevent it from firing unintentionally. They are extremely reliable but they do not have a locking safety. A locking safety is great when the gun is being handled by someone that shouldn’t but this should never be the case. The #1 safety on a gun is the owner. No amount of mechanism on a gun can override the owner. A gun is a tool. I am all for more gun control because there is a gun problem but there is also a people problem and we can’t just blame everything on the guns.