"Grip safety," not "palm safety," but anyway.....I own 1911's and if someone was pulling on the barrel, I would squeeze the grip even harder to retain the gun. So I don't see that this would necessarily allow the grip safety to be released.GWE Chally wrote:To me this begs the question of how he was holding the gun. The 1911 has a palm safety (Unless it was not operating correctly), if he was pulling the gun toward himself, the way I picture it, he would be relieving the pressure on the palm safety...
And what ever happened to "indexing". I feel bad for the CHL, but sometimes Darwin wins.
The bigger problem, aside from the terminal stupidity of playing with a gun like that, is that the CHL didn't keep his booger hook off the bang switch until he was ready to fire.............so apparently the safety between his ears had been disengaged too.