cyphertext wrote: ↑Thu May 31, 2018 7:22 am
Liberty wrote: ↑Thu May 31, 2018 4:45 am
For me there are two kinds of guns, Gunst to depend on and guns that are toys. I wouldn't buy a gun that to carry or protect my home that hadn't been on the market for a few years. and developed a reputation for being safe and reliable. A gun that's to be used as a range toy or a collector's safe queen is a different story. I would think that one would want to have the highest possible confidence in the weapons they choose to carry.
Other people have more trust than I do. I would never trust a 1911 because of reliability issues with defensive ammo nor a Glock's and their ilk because of their reputation for shooting the people they are meant to protect. Others don't worry about such things. That's OK, but for me, I carry because of the tiny odds I'm going to need it. It makes no sense to play the odds with unsafe or unreliable weapons.
Some people put little importance to being drop safe. The thing is most people aren't that drop safe. We get into car accidents we fall, and things fall onto us. It's one thing to take a gun that might not be 100% drop safe to the range, but on one's persons while working driving etc. is a risk I wouldn't want to take. like everything in life though we make choices.
Now I'm curious in what you carry? I've never seen a Glock shoot someone without the trigger being pulled. Can't blame the gun for owner's carelessness.
I agree its always the trigger being pulled but sometimes though its a shirtsleeve, others its a piece of holster. While Glockleg is almost always the users fault, there is just less of a margin of safety. The art and science of safety typically calls for layers of protection. A manual safety, double action first shot trigger, and rising hammer is a triple layer of added safety.
I mostly carry a Beretta Storm Subcompact. other times I carry a 92FS, less often I take my Ruger P95 out to get some air.
To be honest , I understand some people carry them feeling perfectly safe. I've been carrying DA/SA so long that feel like somethings missing when handling the typical striker pistol. I'm also concerned that so many folks are buying these micro striker guns as their first guns. I don't mean to get evangelical about all this, but I do believe that new buyers don't even consider the options.
