Lock Is The New Stupid

[buck460XVR]

Lock Is The New Stupid.

Locks on revolvers is not new, but old news. So old as a matter of fact, that anti-lock rant threads have tapered off from about two a week to about one a month now.

 

[MCgunner]

The problem is these locks can be activated by an impact on the gun. This has been documented, and I have personally documented it with an S&W revolver. These are not guns you want to have with you in a tactical situation.

I'll never be in a 'tactical situation'. I could perhaps be in a defensive shooting someday, but I ain't kickin' in doors. That's BATFE's MO. Besides, you cannot be tacticool with a revolver.

 

[alienbogey]

Would you not buy a gun because it had a safety?

Absolutely yes.

 

[WestKentucky]

I do use the internal locks on my Taurus guns now. When I have my sisters kids over or my wife's brother it's far easier to turn the lock than it is to unload, rearrange the safe so that they will fit, and then undo it when they leave. I have 2 Taurus keys... One in my wallet and the other in the safe.

 

[joneb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law
I don't own a gun with a IL and hope I never will. Just my 2 cents

 

[Bobson]

Smith still makes at least one J-Frame option in .357 Mag with no lock. Just sayin.

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/...57768_757767_757751_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y

(Model M&P340 - SKU#103072)

 

[gun_with_a_view]

I'll never be in a 'tactical situation'.

Poor choice of words on my part . I, too, am self-restricted to the defensive side only.Perhaps I should have said, "When feces is going down."

 

[Waveski]

No one else said it yet so I will - those frame locks are just plain damned UGLY!!! A hole in the frame - a travesty as far as I'm concerned.

 

[evan price]

My Walther P22 has a lock, and it's a semi. Not that I use it.

I don't mind the Taurus lock on the hammer, it's actually not noticeable normally.

Smith locks are a deliberate insult towards the shooting community by their visible position and failure mode function.

 

[Dmitri Popov]

Absolutely yes.

Ok, consider my mind blown. Granted I've had a few guns without safetys, I don't refuse guns without them. And other than a pre-64 Savage Mod. 24 they all at least a half-cock. If you are avoiding safeties all together, that would alienate pretty much every firearm made in the last, what, 30 years?

(Yes I know you probably have guns with safeties, and that I'm probably exagerating some, but your statement, as mentioned before, has blown my mind.)

 

[buck460XVR]

No one else said it yet so I will - those frame locks are just plain damned UGLY!!! A hole in the frame - a travesty as far as I'm concerned.

Everytime I hear/read this, I can't help but remember a discussion my dad got into with a neighbor years ago back in the late 50s/early 60s. They both had bought new cars at about the same time and the neighbor was trying to imply his was better than my dad's because his gas cap was hid under the rear license plate, where as my dad's was a "stupid ugly hole on the side of the car!". Half a century later and those holes are still there........