1. How long can you keep a gun "cocked and locked"? Do any of you keep your gun in this condition for days at a time...?
2. Should the mechanism that keeps the hammer back fail...in the "cocked" position...I am assuming that the hammer would slam down and cause a AD. Or..would the hammer slam down, but not set off the round...due to the trigger not being pulled? (I am interested in how this would work in 1911...and also in the new Sig P238...which is like a mini 1911, albeit a .380 caliber.)
2. Should the mechanism that keeps the hammer back fail...in the "cocked" position...I am assuming that the hammer would slam down and cause a AD. Or..would the hammer slam down, but not set off the round...due to the trigger not being pulled? (I am interested in how this would work in 1911...and also in the new Sig P238...which is like a mini 1911, albeit a .380 caliber.)