What do you do with revolversI strongly believe in external safeties and that is why all of my handguns have a thumb safety. Sorry, guess I am "Old School".
Did you read the earlier posts in this thread?Savage calls it a "two stage trigger" on their rifles.
Last year, a local deputy got his keys caught up in the "safety," and his pistol went off in a school parking lot. If you depress the safety, the gun goes off. Some safety.
Did you read the earlier posts in this thread?
...Does anyone here actually believe that it adds to the safety of the gun?
What, if any, purpose does it serve?
To your first question, I certainly do not. To your second, I suspect the purpose served in the Glock is mainly legislative/administrative. The Glock is an import. In the S&W, I have no idea.
+1. Once you are used to sweeping off a safety I don't know why you would not want one.
If you had, you would have seen that it is not designed to prevent the kind of accident you referred to. As Deadeye Dick said, it's a drop safety. It will prevent the gun from firing if dropped on the rear of the slide.Did you read the earlier posts in this thread?
Didn't know I had to.
I've seen the glock trigger safety on an Iver Johnson made in 1887. IF it worked well then glocks would not have so many accidental discharges. And yeah, I had one. I rate it's safety as being about like a condom with a hole in each end.Those triggers have been around for something like 100 years. I don't like them. Your best safety is the grey matter between your ears.
If you had, you would have seen that it is not designed to prevent the kind of accident you referred to. As Deadeye Dick said, it's a drop safety. It will prevent the gun from firing if dropped on the rear of the slide.
A drop safety in the middle of the trigger. BRILLIANT!
If you had, you would have seen that it is not designed to prevent the kind of accident you referred to. As Deadeye Dick said, it's a drop safety. It will prevent the gun from firing if dropped on the rear of the slide.