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Originally Posted by Whatgorilla
Found it in my Shield--had to look it up in the manual to figure out what it was. Is the sole purpose of this thing to allow disassembly without pulling the trigger OR does it serve any other, real purpose?
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YES.
The concept of being able to field strip a striker fired pistol without having to pull the trigger first to release the striker was done for a reason.
A certain Federal agency whom I won't name has a had a lot of holes in the walls of their Firearms Training Facility over the years as a result of their issued Glock's needing to have the trigger pulled while field stripping the gun in order to de-cock the striker.
The ability to de-cock the striker w/o pulling the trigger was a huge selling point for LE agency sales.
I have fat fingers. I have found an ink pen works well as a tool to flick the yellow lever during disassembly.