I think i'm a wuss
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I think it can happen naturally based on your lifestyle.
For me, I have stopped carrying Glocks and other passive safety guns due to risk of my own negligence even though I do follow the 4 rules.
I have a three year old in my house. When she was little, it was no big deal. Now she can get into everything. Please keep in mind that ALL of my guns are locked up. The ones in the cabinet are stored unloaded and locked. The magazines and ammo are stored in a separate safe using a different key (both of which there are only one of and always on my person). My nightstand gun is in a key pad vault which only my wife and I have the combination and has a lock out after 3 failed attempts. My daily carry piece is stored in a three digit combo nano vault kept in my truck, locked, and parked in my garage.
I feel that I had done a lot to keep my firearms safely out of reach of my daughter as well as constantly drilling into her head "if you ever find something sharp or looks like a gun...leave it alone and come get daddy".
That said, I'm human. What if I forget get to lock the bedside safe before I step into the shower? While it would be difficult for my daughter to get into it, I feel a lot better about having a pistol in there with a 12lb trigger pull and completely deadened by the safety. In short, it may take her a few minutes to figure out how to use it. A Glock? Well I have touched off a Glock on accident and ended up with a nice hole in my wall, 2 days or ringing in my ears, and left pretty shaken up. Totally my fault. I dropped the mag and didn't check the chamber. I don't normally keep it chambered and didn't remember loading one in the pipe after a range visit. Luckily it was pointed in a safe direction, but it would be even easier for a 3 year old to do terrible damage had it be left accessible.
As for my EDC, I prefer a revolver. Mainly because my day to day requires that I take my gun on and off my person. I don't like handling a Glock outside of a holster unless I plan on shooting it. Don't get me wrong. I love Glocks. I think they are fine and very safe firearms. They just aren't forgiving of accidents.
Just personal preference, of course.
For me, I have stopped carrying Glocks and other passive safety guns due to risk of my own negligence even though I do follow the 4 rules.
I have a three year old in my house. When she was little, it was no big deal. Now she can get into everything. Please keep in mind that ALL of my guns are locked up. The ones in the cabinet are stored unloaded and locked. The magazines and ammo are stored in a separate safe using a different key (both of which there are only one of and always on my person). My nightstand gun is in a key pad vault which only my wife and I have the combination and has a lock out after 3 failed attempts. My daily carry piece is stored in a three digit combo nano vault kept in my truck, locked, and parked in my garage.
I feel that I had done a lot to keep my firearms safely out of reach of my daughter as well as constantly drilling into her head "if you ever find something sharp or looks like a gun...leave it alone and come get daddy".
That said, I'm human. What if I forget get to lock the bedside safe before I step into the shower? While it would be difficult for my daughter to get into it, I feel a lot better about having a pistol in there with a 12lb trigger pull and completely deadened by the safety. In short, it may take her a few minutes to figure out how to use it. A Glock? Well I have touched off a Glock on accident and ended up with a nice hole in my wall, 2 days or ringing in my ears, and left pretty shaken up. Totally my fault. I dropped the mag and didn't check the chamber. I don't normally keep it chambered and didn't remember loading one in the pipe after a range visit. Luckily it was pointed in a safe direction, but it would be even easier for a 3 year old to do terrible damage had it be left accessible.
As for my EDC, I prefer a revolver. Mainly because my day to day requires that I take my gun on and off my person. I don't like handling a Glock outside of a holster unless I plan on shooting it. Don't get me wrong. I love Glocks. I think they are fine and very safe firearms. They just aren't forgiving of accidents.
Just personal preference, of course.
Arkansas Paul
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Oh, I don't think you're a wuss.
I do believe people get more cautious as they get older.
When I was 14 my dad would drop me off at my deer stand and I wouldn't see him for hours on end. And that's before we had cell phones.
Now I'm 33, married and with a kid. If I'm in the deer stand and don't answer his text within 5 minutes he freaks out.
Times do change a person. lol
I do believe people get more cautious as they get older.
When I was 14 my dad would drop me off at my deer stand and I wouldn't see him for hours on end. And that's before we had cell phones.
Now I'm 33, married and with a kid. If I'm in the deer stand and don't answer his text within 5 minutes he freaks out.
Times do change a person. lol
Corpral_Agarn
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I am a younger guy but i feel more at home with a revolver or DA/SA because of the trigger pull of that 10lb first shot. Love the 1911, i just get nervous about accidentally hitting that switch.
I know, I know! its a stupid thing to be worried about. in the proper holster, with the proper diligence it simply cannot be an issue.
It's all just personal preference, I think. My brother swears by the Cocked-N'-Locked.
I know, I know! its a stupid thing to be worried about. in the proper holster, with the proper diligence it simply cannot be an issue.
It's all just personal preference, I think. My brother swears by the Cocked-N'-Locked.
m9meatball
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I am currently debating between a Glock and a Px4. The Glock makes me nervous for the same reason. I'm only 26 so I guess I actually am a wuss lol. I would love to see the statistics but I would guess that odds of injuring myself or someone else in a ND situation is probably on par with actually having to use your weapon for self defense. Just a guess. You can never be too safe with handguns IMHO.
Arkansas Paul
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Accidentally hitting that switch won't do a thing if that grip safety isn't engaged.
I will admit I'm not all giddy about carrying one that way either though.
I have carried many different guns over the last 30+ years, and my current carry guns on my CCW include three 1911s, four Glocks, a Shield, a SP2022, and a .38 snubbie.
I can draw and fire any of them quickly and smoothly. I holster them slowly and deliberately. I never depend on a safety to keep a gun safe, regardless of which one I'm carrying.
I can draw and fire any of them quickly and smoothly. I holster them slowly and deliberately. I never depend on a safety to keep a gun safe, regardless of which one I'm carrying.
SFreed
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Not a wuss. To each his own. We all do things differently, for different reasons. My kids are grown and gone, but when my Granddaughter is in the house, EVERY firearm I own is locked away, completely inaccessible to her. Better safe than sorry in my mind.
Jlr2267
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Not a wuss. With age comes wisdom. 
mgmorden
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No problem there. I don't mind people who carry cocked and locked but I probably wouldn't do it either, but then again I don't like a safety on a gun at all.
Personally for myself I want a trigger with a first pull between 5 and 8 lbs and no safety (or at least a design where I can leave the safety off). The includes most striker fired pistols without modifications (ie, my Glock has a - connector and my M&P has an Apex CAEK - I wouldn't use either of those as a carry gun).
Whatever you're comfortable is fine, though I wouldn't say that you've "wisened" as that implies that others who choose differently are making a wrong choice - just that you have changed your mind.
Personally for myself I want a trigger with a first pull between 5 and 8 lbs and no safety (or at least a design where I can leave the safety off). The includes most striker fired pistols without modifications (ie, my Glock has a - connector and my M&P has an Apex CAEK - I wouldn't use either of those as a carry gun).
Whatever you're comfortable is fine, though I wouldn't say that you've "wisened" as that implies that others who choose differently are making a wrong choice - just that you have changed your mind.
Jlr2267
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The wisdom is in knowing one's own limitations.
Well its like this i have found that i have knocked the saftey off on my 1911s. I carried my officers modle today due to shorts an tee shirt weather. I find myself making sure its in the locked position when i get out of my car. I do this without thought now just habit. With the ruger you push up instead of down so not as likely to disengage it.
Godsgunman
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Lol, that made me chuckle Lawlerr.
I don't think it has anything to do with being a "wuss". If something like that made someone a "wuss" then I would dare say that those who can't master a DA pull are "wusses". It's the beauty of choices. I'm not a cocked and locked kind of guy personally just because I don't trust the design. I've done striker fire Glock style to DA/SA to DAO. Personally I like DAO or DA/SA. I am 33 with 2 kids under 4. I like having at least an 8 lbs trigger pull for the first shot and knowing that my kids aren't strong enough to pull it if they were somehow about to break in my locked safe. All comes down to your confidence level in your abilities and safety measures.
I don't think it has anything to do with being a "wuss". If something like that made someone a "wuss" then I would dare say that those who can't master a DA pull are "wusses". It's the beauty of choices. I'm not a cocked and locked kind of guy personally just because I don't trust the design. I've done striker fire Glock style to DA/SA to DAO. Personally I like DAO or DA/SA. I am 33 with 2 kids under 4. I like having at least an 8 lbs trigger pull for the first shot and knowing that my kids aren't strong enough to pull it if they were somehow about to break in my locked safe. All comes down to your confidence level in your abilities and safety measures.
I guess i could start the 45 9mm argument but i like both calibers. I do keep the p95 loaded with corbons though. I guess just more concerned about saftey these days. I here about so many stupid accidents . In a small town about 10min from me, a cop shot his self in the leg while holstering his glock last year. How i don't know.
Panzerschwein
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Concerning your choice of a gun with more active safeties and is more forgiving, I absolutely do not fault you in the slightest. I'm not too keen on carrying a Glock with a round in the chamber either. Give me something like a Beretta 92 with a DA/SA trigger.
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Onward Allusion
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I went the other way with age. Used to love having a manual safety / decocker. I don't use 'em any more. On guns that have one, I never have it on. I prefer relying on my trigger finger than some mechanical device. Of course, I only carry and use hammer fired or striker fired with partial tension reset.
Zaydok Allen
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No need to beat yourself up for having a preference. Do what you are comfortable with.
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