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remington79 wrote:I thought they changed the law so if you shot in self defense and it was ruled as such you were protected from civil liability.

"and it was ruled as such" that's key

Suppose a grand jury sends it to a prosecutor or whatever for a trial to determine facts on whether or not it's a justified shoot

While a criminal trial is pending in the backlogged Criminal Courts, a civil suit is filed

(We need a shrugging shoulders "i dunno" emoticon thingie, I'd use it a lot)

G192627 wrote:

Y2bad4u wrote:

G192627 wrote:A justified shoot is a justified shoot.
If you were justified, it doesn't matter what trigger setup you had/have. If you weren't, you can have a 100 lb trigger and you're still in trouble.

For all of us thats a no brainer, but if your in court I doubt you will have 12 txchlforum members on the jury and thats the issue. All they have to say to the jury is your handgun had a custom "hair trigger" in your gun and paint you out to be some gun freak just wanting to shoot someone. Just something to think about considering the times. Even if you were "justified".

I'm saying it won't go to court. A justified shoot won't get passed a Grand Jury. There would be no trial. What am I missing?

Disputable fact situations.
Situations such as the Police officer who was holding a gun on a suspect and the suspect reared his head back in resistance while reaching for his own gun, hitting the barrel of the officer's gun with his head and suspect's family saying it was an "accident" negligent homicide due to the "hair trigger" instead of a justifiable shoot.
So, Grand Jury decides to hand it over to a "trier of fact" jury to make a determination, because they don't want the responsibility.

Not sayin' it's common, but possible. You know juries read the papers, watch the news, and know "lots of guns" just "go off" even if no one touched them.

Abraham wrote:While I know many who change out triggers on Glocks, I read little of such with XD's, Sigs, etc.

Why is that?

Anyone know - Parts availability or ...?

Service Depts and gunsmiths need jobs too

On carry and Home Defense guns, I keep factory triggers, I owned two 17L models with the light trigger, didn't make that big a difference to me.

I considered replacing all my Glocks triggers with heavy NY triggers, which might be even better in Court, since they were designed for the P.D.

But I decided to leave them alone, rather than potential be accused of "altering the design to have a 'hair trigger' leading to a potential 'accidental/negligent' charge rather than intentional self-defense if I replaced the standard parts with a "lighter" trigger.

All the triggers work well enough for me if they function correctly.

I put on better sights (Advantage Tactical) and sometimes a laser, sometimes an extended barrel for a tad more accuracy+velocity.

For guns reserved only for competition or such, I'd have no qualms swapping out triggers and parts. But, that's just how I think, YMMV.

I'd use whatever works best and is most accurate and safest for you, and if you ever have to bring up the issue in Court, state that you preferred accuracy so as not to injure innocents, and being alive, so you had your pistol improved for safety or something.... I'm not a lawyer, but I'm sure prosecutors tried this stuff before and it's probably research-able, probably Ayoob ran into it when testifying before I imagine, if you research it.