"Safe" trigger systems.

[Handy]

I was just browsing and noticed that whenever a manufacturer wants to sell a pistol with a 5 lbs. trigger and no additional manual safety, the trigger gets the word "Safe" stuck in it's description and title.

I've noted this with the XD, Glock and Daewoo. Walther prefers "anti-stress" to "safe" in the P99, which is understandable, since the word safe is so abused.


Anyone else amused by this?

 

[Bowlcut]

Yup very.

Why i went with the 99 series of gun. Cause they dont try to sugar coat it. The tigger is not safe, its anti stress. I like its feel and function better than any glock...but thats me

 

[Tacblack]

Yep I have noticed that too.

Goes along well with "Range is safe" which I hate to hear, I hear this at IDPA matchs have not looked it up to see what the rule book says.
Ranges may be clear but they are never safe, I know the USPSA rule book says "Range is clear" for the command.

I guess if the above poly striker guns are "safe" action, then the old 1911 and 2011 guns with 3.5 pound triggers are "Extra safe"?

I wish things were not sugar coated unless its my breakfast

 

[Gordon Fink]

Given the general public’s common misapprehension that guns can “just go off,†I suspect that “safe-action†triggers are so designated to reinforce the idea that these guns can’t “just go off†without a pull of the trigger.

~G. Fink

 

[Tim Burke]

Soccer moms want everything safe. A trained gumman should know that guns aren't safe... that's why we like them.

 

[10-Ring]

Welcome to the world of marketing & political correctness! The way I've always looked at it, if you don't want your guns to go off, keep your finger off the trigger!

 

[aircarver]

My gripe with my Steyr. 'Twenty' kinds 'a safeties on the trigger, nothing to stop the striker if it jumps out of the sear due to clearance buildup. A single point failure, but you'd never know about it reading the literature.