I don't agree with this at all. There is plenty that can be done to improve a great many guns, if you know what you're doing. It's unwise and unfair to judge all tinkerers as incompetent.
I also wouldn't go around telling real gunfighters that their cherished fighting pistols are "unsafe". Unlike most of us, they didn't grow up in a time where there's a lawyer on every corner just frothing to get a big payday for every idiot who hurts themselves. Where people spill hot coffee on themselves and then sue for getting burned. It was a time of common sense, before barrel warnings, loaded chamber indicators and internal locks. When they did what they had to to win gunfights.
An easy judgement to make from the comfort of modern suburban life.
I don't care for it but there's nothing dangerous about the "poor boy's trigger job" and it still leaves ten inches of creep.
An easy judgement to make from the comfort of modern suburban life.
What rhetoric? I see no evidence of hero worship. It's called respect and a little perspective. I'm just not going to stand and judge those who lived and died by their skill and speed with their sidearm. Or sit idly while others do so. Regardless of their time spent "in the company of whomever". Those guys worked a dangerous job in a time without cell phones, instant backup, safety regulations and every other modern technology law enforcement now enjoys. They usually worked alone and in a world much wilder than this one. So I wouldn't sit here in the comfort of my office and judge the way they did their job and survived.
You are equating my evaluation (you first used the word judgement and I should have corrected that) with condemnation. In reality I think I have more respect for these men than you because, while we may possibly both have equal perspectives based on experience, I respect these men as men who are just as endowed with all the emotion, flaws, reason and perfections of other men. The difference being that most men don't get the experience to so brutally test their ability to have their reason and perfections triumph over their emotion and flaws in the gravest extremes and succeed at doing so. Some of the "killers" I knew were quirky and had flamboyant personal styles and could be influence by what peers considered fashionable. I think if you do some research going back over the last century of conflict you will discover this is often true. One of my favorite examples is the late Larry Freedman. Larry was the first american casualty in Somalia in 1992 and my boss in 1987. You should check-up on Larry, his story is well known at Ft. Bragg's SOCOM, and he has a star on the wall at CIA in Langley, VA. He was a helluva guy.
craigc said:
I recently read a story about just this. A shooter was learning on a double barrel where a trigger pull shot the first, and unbeknownst to her, a release shot the second. After practicing with one round at a time she loaded 2 and apparently blew her foot off. I can't recall the source of the story or when it happened, unfortunately.
