BMF500
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I like to have some sort of external safety mechinism on my SA handguns.
Read the recent thread on Arfcom where a member was robbed and shot in the hand. He had trouble returning fire on his assailant because of the grip "safety" on his 1911.I've heard this argument before, more along the line of "what if you're injured and can't get a good grip". I see your point, however, considering the very long history of the 1911 with a grip safety, if this was a common problem the grip safety would have been removed long ago.
Specifically to your example, I believe that in a life and death situation most people would be crushing the grip.
Wrong.The less safety mechanisms on a tool the more likely it is to have issues.
It was a Glock 23. He pulled the trigger.Does anyone know what Plaxico Burress was carrying?
i knew a friend who was a friend of his friend
Are you pulling my leg here?i heard from a friend who knows a friend that works for a police department
We were discussing the grip safety not the thumb safety. You don't need to remember the grip safety. If you grip your gun, it's off.in a tense situation he forgot the safety was on!
No, but IMO someone in a tense situation would over grip not under grip (both being the wrong thing to do).hey straightshooter, have you had a life and death situation?
Read the recent thread on Arfcom where a member was robbed and shot in the hand. He had trouble returning fire on his assailant because of the grip "safety" on his 1911.
Just because someone disagrees with you does not mean they are new, inexperienced or unconfident.The grip safety, like most "features" of the HS2000 is a marketing gimmick aimed at new/inexperienced/un confident shooters.
I don't think it was a gimmick when the 1911 was designed....The grip safety, like most "features" of the HS2000 is a marketing gimmick aimed at new/inexperienced/un confident shooters.
The HS2000 is not a 1911.I don't think it was a gimmick when the 1911 was designed....
Look at SA's ads and the comments from owners. It is clear who SA is marketing to.Just because someone disagrees with you does not mean they are new, inexperienced or unconfident.
There are many platforms that use no external safeties, decockers, thumb safeties, grip safeties or a combination. All are popular.
To believe that the only correct platform is the one that you use is arrogent/ignorant.
Yup a marketing gimmick for the new, inexperienced and low confidence Croatian army who had just beaten the Yugoslav and Bosnian Serbs.The grip safety, like most "features" of the HS2000 is a marketing gimmick aimed at new/inexperienced/un confident shooters.
Boats said:A pistol line that has to have a holster as its "fourth safety" isn't as inherently safe as its cheerleaders make it out to be.
is that xd grip safety really necessary?
Boats said:Lots of "Glock Legs" have been caused by foreign objects like windbreaker cinch toggles getting caught in the trigger guard upon reholstering, but go ahead and deny it so that your status as a kool-aid hawker is absolutely crystal.
Boats said:Anyone too weak or injured to grip an XD or 1911A1 positively enough to fire it is certainly going to limp wrist their Glock into a single shot at best. Aim it well.