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Old 08-22-2013, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by kodiakpb View Post
You don't understand and that's not how it works. It's the act of a hard impact that has enough inertia to cause the trigger bar to move....like you pulled the trigger (to put it simplistically). If the lower half of the trigger is not working correctly...that little tab you see behind the trigger will not be extended...if its not extended, it will not "catch" on the frame to stop the trigger bar movement when the weapon is dropped. Nothing has to touch the trigger. Understand now?
I understand fine... you don't.... ask yourself a question, which takes more force, disengaging the trigger safety or actually getting the trigger to break? when you apply pressure to the trigger, which one of those two things happens first? in other words, if a drop were to occur that gave the trigger enough inertia to break, it would also be more than enough inertia to disengage the safety. It just doesn't matter. I would argue it would be nearly impossible to create this situation either way. You could throw your gun as hard as you want and have it land just perfectly so and there just isn't enough mass to the trigger for it to overcome the trigger pull with just inertia. it's a non issue. The only situation the trigger safety feature protects against is if something like a drawstring gets caught in the trigger guard and attempts to pull the trigger while also being up against the frame.

bottom line. any situation short of direct physical pressure above the hinge that would cause the trigger to break will also cause the safety to disengage.
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