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Originally Posted by Wise_A
Oh no. I get exactly what you're saying. I just think you're wrong.
The trigger of a striker-fired pistol needs to be covered. This is a necessity. The pistol has a firing pin block which can only be deactivated by depressing the trigger, so controlling the trigger is key. This is, in many respects, quite similar to the 1911 and thumb-strap holsters, in that the strap's interference between hammer and firing pin is the critical safety design (not the manual safety). The difference is that the "firing pin block" on the Glock is internal, whereas on the 1911, it's part of the holster.
Lacking a manual safety does not make them any less safe than any other design.
You've written a long-winded post about a "problem", but you seem to think it's some new one, when it's not.
There have always been cheap, miserably-poor holsters.
Writing about this over and over again, and telling me about some twit in Australia that bought 18,000 poorly-made holsters that I wouldn't have spent two bucks of my own money on, makes me feel as if you think I'm a twit.
TL;DR--I don't need a PSA to tell me how to buy a holster. I think the slower kids over on ARforum or Glocktalk would benefit from it more.
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Oh, I'm not wrong. Nor am I saying that the trigger shouldn't be covered :-). And my post is not directed at the sophisticated user.
But then if you
think I'm wrong, but in this case I'M the sophisticated user (50 years of professionally dealing with the rights and wrongs of holsters), then the PSA went to the right place: you personally, and heaps of others, didn't and still don't grasp the risk you're taking. The Glock action is a different risk from the 1911 in condition one.
Safety includes necessary risk -- a driver of a forklift is actually sitting on the forklift and the lift can and does tip over; yet it's necessary because the machine needs an operator -- and unnecessary risk, such as someone standing under the loaded, lifted pallet to inspect it (yes, I've seen it and stopped it).
My post is to say 'the emperor has no clothes': some/many/all don't know they are taking an un-examined, unnecessary risk :-). But don't be going and telling Safariland that you never did think much of their products (those are the holsters in play here in Oz), they'd be displeased. And that it's Safariland holsters in Australia is not indicative that they aren't as smart here, as you are there.
I think that's enough on this topic from both of us. Some will get it, some will not, and "time has already tolled": the accidents that were predictable, are
already happening.