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PhillRoath wrote:

HadEmAll wrote:If she wasn't strong enough to operate the slide release, she might as well not be strong enough to pull the slide far enough to the rear to properly chamber a round. In this case, I side with the advice. That is what Kahr, for example, states is the proper way to chamber a round.

I've never seen it called a slide release in any owner's manual (could be, just never seen it). On mine they call it the slide stop because it's primary function is to lock the slide back after the last round. With an empty magazine in the gun, the slide stop is harder to move than with a loaded magazine. So with a loaded magazine either way is correct - pull back slightly and release or move the slide stop.

Could be totally wrong but that's the way it seems to me.

Phill

No, you are correct. I've just gotten in the habit over the years of calling it what I'm trying to do with it at the moment. In this case, after it has "stopped" the slide from going forward, you are now switching to the "release" mode of it.

I was trying to say that one of the most common malfunctions beginners and careless non-beginners introduce in a semi-automatic is not being capable of properly releasing the slide smartly to allow it to chamber a round. So many people try to follow the slide to its closed position and don't allow it to close using the full force of the recoil spring.

That's why Kahr says the only proper way to chamber a round is to release the slide using the slide-okay-stop.

As I say, you are correct. Maybe you will be the one to let Wikipedia know. Here's what they have to say, direct quote:

"Slide stop
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A slide stop, also referred to as a slide release, on a semi-automatic handgun is a function that visually indicates when a handgun has expended all loaded ammunition and facilitates faster re-loading by removing the step of pulling back the slide to advance the first round of a new magazine. In many cases, this is achieved by replacing the magazine and activating a push-button or lever release to load the first cartridge into the chamber."

alvins wrote:I was at a local sporting goods store last night. Their was a young lady and her bf or husband trying to buy a gun for her. The sales man was giving out all sorts of wrong info. the main thing the lady kept saying she wasnt strong enough to push the slide lock down with her thumb to release the slide. the sales men and her bf kept telling her that is the only way to release the slide properly.

Does anyone say anything when someone is giving out such bad info?

I felt sorry for the lady because she was getting frustrated with the whole thing.

If she wasn't strong enough to operate the slide release, she might as well not be strong enough to pull the slide far enough to the rear to properly chamber a round. In this case, I side with the advice. That is what Kahr, for example, states is the proper way to chamber a round.

She sounds like a revolver candidate.

But I do agree that you hear so much bad advice/incorrect information from gun counter people, that it would drive you nuts trying to correct it. Look at it this way, the people getting the advice have just as much opportunity as you to seek proper advice, from the Internet, books, magazines, etc.

Are you going to be the person/stalker who waylays them on the next aisle, and tells them that the counter person was wrong, and here is how it really is?

Sometimes, you just have to grit your teeth and thank fate that you are not that ignorant.