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Old 01-27-2014, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by WTN1271 View Post
S&W ad mentions 'double strike capability' so I think that would make it hammer fired.
I thought that was a result of being a double action only meaning that each and every pull of the trigger will retract and drop the hammer with no racking of the slide or thumbing of the hammer required to reset the trigger. Of course the way the hammer is positioned you cannot thumb it (unless maybe you have some alien fingers that are extremely thin).
I thought striker versus hammer had only to do with how the force of the hammer is transmitted to the primer/firing pin.
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