Well good for you.Feed&Guns wrote:carlson1 wrote:Don't want to take this off topic, but this is a mouth full of wisdom yet some still just don't understand how dangerous it is to carry with an empty chamber thinking they can see the threat, draw, chamber a round, point, and then shoot.ShootDontTalk wrote:
On the other hand, carrying anything with NO round in the chamber is a lot more dangerous.
I do a demonstration with many of my customers who are new to guns. I hand them a red ASP training gun. I say, "Okay. Now, put this where you'd carry your gun. Pretend like it's under your shirt or in your purse. When I say, "bad guy! bad guy!" I want you to shoot the threat."
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM draw the gun and just go "bang". Then I take the gun out of their hand and say, "see, it's not instinctive to disengage the safety and especially not to rack the slide." "Unless you are planning on training 1000 rounds a month and on every draw, dropping the safety and charging the weapon, you need to consider a revolver or a striker fired gun with no external safety." "Instinct is to point and shoot. If you don't train otherwise, you need a weapon that fits your instinct."
Their faces look blank for a few seconds while it sinks in and then the light bulb comes on. Every one of them say, "ya. that makes sense."
As such, I have very few handguns guns in my store that have a thumb safety (except my personal Sig 1911 Scorpion used to show off my Osprey suppressor). Revolvers and striker fired, no external safeties are what I like to promote.
Very little practice of drawing and disengaging a thumb safety yields muscle memory. Why we're even talking about this in this thread, I don't know. But here we are. Most of us willing to take on the task of carrying a 1911 are fully capable of operating them. I will agree that I never recommend guns with a thumb safety to new shooters, even though they tend to flock to them due to their own insecurities about handling a gun. Like said, the majority of these type of people don't practice building muscle memory. These are also the type of people to leave a Glock unchambered.
