The safety is not for me, it's for someone else who gets my gun and tries to shoot me with it! Numerous studies done by different PD's, law enforcement groups and such have pretty much proven that if your gun winds up in the bad guys hand it takes up to fifteen seconds for them to get it to fire, an eternity in that kind of dynamic. Time to get control, draw a back up or just scoot to cover or evasion and such.

Years of shooting IPSC with an 1911 makes disengaging the safety a automatic thing for me. I do carry at times a "point and pull" hand gun but I feel more comfortable with a safety equipped hand gun. That's why my M&P .45ACP is equipped with the safety. As always this is a personal choice thing.

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Stay safe people!