Barrett has balls of API, that's for sure.
For that reason alone, I will buy an M82A1 rifle from him one day (oh, that and they're bloody awesome, but that's besides the point, right?
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What is it going to take? A pollice officer (because a civillian's life just isn't that important) dead in the streets with a round in the chamber, mid-reload, because his 'mag disconnect' didn't let him use that holdout round to save his life?
CLI is just another thing that SOUNDS like a good idea, but isn't.
A) Relying on any indicator other than *checking the goddamn chamber* for a round is dangerous in the extreme. The indicator CAN fail. Many new lawsuits here.
B) Guns are always loaded! Adding a device that actively encourages people to break this rule of gun handling is irresponsible at best, and criminally prosecutable at worst.
C) CLI, like an internal locking device, is one more device to break and jam up the entire gun, and possibly get someone killed.
D) They just don't work. I didn't even realize my Glock had one for several days. They won't stop a total friggin idoit from pointing the gun at his face and shooting himself (see the Beretta lawsuit.)
Don't get me started on mag disconnects. I will not have one in any gun I ever own. They WILL get someone killed. If they haven't already.