This is not giving me a good feeling.
It has happened on my 3" 1911 a number of times. I don't worry about it. The gun is holstered. The trigger is covered. The grip safety is not depressed. Instead, I've developed the habit, whenever I'm carrying one of my pistols with a framed mounted safety, of occasionally and discreetly feeling with my hand to see if it is still engaged. I only do it when and where I am sure I won't be observed. I am pretty sure that it usually gets switched off as I get in or out of the car. I carry on the left side, so when I pivot to get in or out, the gun comes in "brushing" contact with the side of the seat back. So I think that is what's doing it. Consequently, that is usually when I check it, as I am pivoting out of my seat to exit the car. The movement is so unobtrusive that I'm pretty sure that nobody would ever notice it. But like I said, even so, I don't really worry about it. Even if I were to draw the gun—which is how I first noticed the problem when I was unholstering at home—I don't keep my finger on the trigger.Ameer wrote:Good thing it's not a 1911!
Ameer wrote:Good thing it's not a 1911!
alexrex20 wrote:good thing it's not a glock lol
That lever on the Glock 18 isn't a safety!
By the way, this has happened with my M&P45 also. I originally bought it in that configuration because it would be similar to the 1911s I was familiar with. But since then, I've carried other guns that have no external safety mechanism at all except that of keeping your booger hook off the bang switch, and I've gotten comfortable with the idea of it. If Glocks were shaped for human hands, I would have bought one a long time ago. I have carried my wife's Glock 19, and it is a great pistol. Even so, I don't much like the shape or angle of the grips. I very much like the Kahr pistols we own, and they don't have an external safety at all. In fact, they depend on the same thing that your revolver does........not pulling the trigger until you're ready to shoot. Seems pretty straightforward to me.The Annoyed Man wrote:It has happened on my 3" 1911 a number of times. I don't worry about it. The gun is holstered. The trigger is covered. The grip safety is not depressed. Instead, I've developed the habit, whenever I'm carrying one of my pistols with a framed mounted safety, of occasionally and discreetly feeling with my hand to see if it is still engaged. I only do it when and where I am sure I won't be observed. I am pretty sure that it usually gets switched off as I get in or out of the car. I carry on the left side, so when I pivot to get in or out, the gun comes in "brushing" contact with the side of the seat back. So I think that is what's doing it. Consequently, that is usually when I check it, as I am pivoting out of my seat to exit the car. The movement is so unobtrusive that I'm pretty sure that nobody would ever notice it. But like I said, even so, I don't really worry about it. Even if I were to draw the gun—which is how I first noticed the problem when I was unholstering at home—I don't keep my finger on the trigger.Ameer wrote:Good thing it's not a 1911!
Thanks fellows for all of the good comments and tips. All three of our handguns have the thumb safety and I like keeping some commonality across the three models. We bought the M&P at our LGS and that's the way they ordered the gun (with the safety), but I think I would have been okay without one.ske1eter wrote:I realize that you probably got the M&P w/ the thumb safety as an extra precaution but mine doesn't have one an it's never gone bang w/o a finger pressing the trigger. At this point, I wouldn't worry about it and would wait until the holster/gun combo is broken in a bit to see if that helps. Though a bit disconcerting, it's not going to go off unintentionally. Glocks, XD's and most M&P 's don't have thumb safeties and there is no safety concerns.
LOLThe Annoyed Man wrote:..If Glocks were shaped for human hands, I would have bought one a long time ago. I have carried my wife's Glock 19, and it is a great pistol. Even so, I don't much like the shape or angle of the grips.
that's exactly what I thought when I handled a few Glocks when handgun shopping.The Annoyed Man wrote:It has happened on my 3" 1911 a number of times. I don't worry about it. The gun is holstered. The trigger is covered. The grip safety is not depressed. Instead, I've developed the habit, whenever I'm carrying one of my pistols with a framed mounted safety, of occasionally and discreetly feeling with my hand to see if it is still engaged. I only do it when and where I am sure I won't be observed. I am pretty sure that it usually gets switched off as I get in or out of the car. I carry on the left side, so when I pivot to get in or out, the gun comes in "brushing" contact with the side of the seat back. So I think that is what's doing it. Consequently, that is usually when I check it, as I am pivoting out of my seat to exit the car. The movement is so unobtrusive that I'm pretty sure that nobody would ever notice it. But like I said, even so, I don't really worry about it. Even if I were to draw the gun—which is how I first noticed the problem when I was unholstering at home—I don't keep my finger on the trigger.Ameer wrote:Good thing it's not a 1911!
