M&P external safety add on

Hope your friend is recovering well. This is a good post to share as a safety reminder.
 
From now on I will carry my MP 45 with an empty chamber,It takes a split of a second to chamber a round and fire,I saw a you- tube video where a guy after being attacked with a knife ,got hold of his glock and chamber a round and fire ,he did it so fast you have to see the video twice to realize what he did.The bad guy was dead before he hit the ground.
 
You're not "that guy."

Carry the pistol in Condition 1. Take a professional "basic tactical pistol" course of 3 days duration.

If you're not comfortable with this get a M1911 with the thumb safety or HK45 with the LEM trigger.

Shooting yourself is a problem. Bad shooter, holsters, and untucked shirts are almost universally to blame, not the pistol.

-- Chuck
 
+1 to Chuck!

"Israeli carry" (empty chamber) is fine if you're constantly moving through marketplaces and condensed masses of humanity where you may have to wrestle for your own firearm, but it sucks horribly most every other time when you may have to draw your SD gun under life-threattening and non-ideal circumstances.

Get yourself a decent holster , don't snag your shirt into the holster when you insert the gun, and get some training.

If you think you have the time to draw, rack, and get a shot off, try running a Tueler drill.

Empty your gun (no, really, double, triple, quadruple check it's empty!!!) then get a friend to run at you (simulating a knife attack) from 10 yards. I guarantee you will hardly clear leather, let alone have time to rack, before he's all over you.
 
From now on I will carry my MP 45 with an empty chamber,It takes a split of a second to chamber a round and fire,I saw a you- tube video where a guy after being attacked with a knife ,got hold of his glock and chamber a round and fire ,he did it so fast you have to see the video twice to realize what he did.The bad guy was dead before he hit the ground.

I'd strongly recommend against doing this.

Life is not a video. You're other hand may not be available. You may be fighting off the suspect with your weak hand. You may be injured. You may be pushing a loved one out of the line of fire. You may see the threat coming and want to covertly draw the gun. "Racking " the slide blows the whole covert thing out the window.

There are a lot of reasons why you should have a gun that's loaded if you are carrying a gun into harms way. Loaded means fully loaded.

This really boils down to proper equipment and training. The friend of the OP was using a knockoff holster. He was competing in a game type environment.

In a real world type environment, there is no rush to re-holster after becoming involved in an incident. Any decent instructor worth the title will teach students to scan for additional threats prior to holstering.
 
Why not just get a gun with a safety... If its not feasible to add a safety to your current firearm..... I got rid if my glock19 ... Traded it for a smith 66-1 with box and tools :) ... I carry my 4006 now ... And feel secure with a round in the chamber and safety on....
 
David,

Here's hoping you friend makes a speedy recovery.

As someone that just ditched an M&P 9mm because it lacked a thumb safety (and had a mag disconnect) for an M&P40 with the safety (and no mag disconnect) that is the action I'd recommend. As a 1911 shooter, the manual safety gun suits me perfectly. It matches my 1911s and my M&P22. I applaud S&W for giving us the choice.
 
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