chiltech500
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how can I respond after barnbwt treatise?
what are the best safety designs on a handgun, and while we're at it, the worst designs?
The best is: ...
For those born after the end of The Cold War, it would seem to be some kind of polymer something semi-automatic that resembles John Dillinger's jail gun.
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testpilot said:For my use, no thumb lever type manual firing inhibitor is best.
Do you prefer a thumb lever type automatic firing inhibitor as opposed to the thumb lever type manual firing inhibitors?
Or maybe just the basic finger operated manual firing inhibitor, or possibly a finger operated dual manual firing inhibitor, or even a palm operated manual firing inhibitor?
I'm not sure what the current ATF rules are on the use of automatic firing inhibitors in civilian firearms.
nom de forum said:Trying to go on a little fishing trip are we? Sure looks like you might with that bait.
Fishing for chumps. Appears that I caught at least one!
Was really hoping for some clarification between manual vs automatic thumb lever type firing inhibitors as opposed to manual vs automatic finger type firing inhibitors. I contacted the ATF at your link and they had no idea what I meant by a "firing inhibitor". Perhaps you could take another bite of the bait and supply another link?
nom de forum said:BTW, you misspelled “chum” in your post
One would think that a member of the "Master Race" wouldn't need a safety. All they'd have to do is cock it, put it in their back pocket and if it went off, it would blow their brains out!Consider the requirement that a mechanical safety should fail in the FIRE position.
There was an early pistol in the Walther MP-AP-HP series leading up to the P38 that had the most positive safety linkages in the business. The German General Staff rejected it because if anything went wrong, it failed in the NO-Fire "safe" position leaving the user disarmed. They went with the HP which was theoretically less safe, then with the P38 which is significantly less secure against inadvertent discharge but which would always be shootable....
confederate said:I was recently playing around with my S&W 659, and I cocked it and began to experiment with the trigger play. I noticed that it took quite a bit to set off the action so it would go off had it been loaded. Would I carry this gun cocked? No way, but it wasn't any more or less apt to fire than a Glock,