I carry my S&W 686 ( 2.5 snubby ) plus regularly. My grand kids stare at me when i talk about speed loaders....LoLA revolver.
I carry my S&W 686 ( 2.5 snubby ) plus regularly. My grand kids stare at me when i talk about speed loaders....LoLA revolver.
And what safety takes two hands to disengage?When you're knocked to the ground by an assailant, you'll be happy you don't need two hands to disengage a safety mechanism.
What the man in the video is worried about is a finger "accidentally" contacting the trigger as the gun is drawn from a holster, pocket, purse, handbag or waistpack thus possibly causing the gun to "accidentally" go off while drawing. There is also the possibility of "accidentally" contacting the trigger while the gun is being holstered or being handled while a round is chambered. When people, even experienced and well-trained firearms handlers, are in a hurry or under stress, they can get careless. It's a human reality. "Accidental" handgun discharges are common even in police departments. I, like the old man in the video, feel a gun with a relatively light trigger and short pull should have a thumb safety for prudence. A double-action revolver with rested hammer can get away with no thumb safety due to its inherent long and heavy trigger.
The gentleman in the video says that the gun might not be easily used against you if the bad guy gets a hold of it and the thumb safety is engaged. Many idiots who try to take guns from cops's duty holsters and use them against the cops have not a clue about the thumb safety and how to use it. They don't often know a thumb safety from a Tom Thumb steam locomotive. Having been accustomed to thumb safeties on my 45's, I see it not really as any real handicap for me. The Shield with thumb safety option is also ambidextrous. The method to release a locked Shield slide might take some training to grow used to it. That thumb "release" is really only a slide lock. The firing human thumb is only used it to lock back the slide manually and not let the slide go forward 45 style.
People will accidentally take a thumb safety off too early, too.
yes, this Glock alone with no real mechanical safety could account for many police gun "accidents"and I thought most cops used glocks
That's a training issue. The same one that gets people killed with a safety. There are videos of it. Person under high duress pulls out firearm and squeezes the trigger and it doesn't go bang. They keep squeezing and it never goes bang and they're dead.
Safety wasn't disengaged. A safety is useless if you don't train with it. A weapon without a safety is dangerous if you don't train with it. Same thing.
It must be time for me to say something. CZ PCREven idiots! LOL!
He talked about it once. It was a Kimber 1911 so it did have a thumb safety, but more importantly IMO, he had a SERPA holster. IIRC he took full blame for it as being too hasty as he unholstered.Do we know his gun even has a thumb safety? Do we know if it was even engaged when it was in his holster? It looks like the guy now is missing a knee cap. He Irish hand shook himself. In Irish mob speak, Irish handshake means getting a cap popped in your cap.
Most do, but that’s not what the post mentioned.and I thought most cops used glocks
yes, this Glock alone with no real mechanical safety could account for many police gun "accidents"
yes, this Glock alone with no real mechanical safety could account for many police gun "accidents"
Most do, but that’s not what the post mentioned.
It didn't go off, he fumbled it and pulled the trigger in the process.This one does....LoL