What would actually happen...?

[Troy26]

After watching teh video and seeing the statements on the forum about the PT145 being able to fire with the safety lever engaged (assuming the trigger was slightly rearward when the safety lever was engaged), I'm surious as to what would actually happen if a round was fired with the slide locked in place.

What do you think?

I'm sure it wouldn't be good.

 

[dmazur]

It might not be as bad as you think. With the slide locked, the barrel is still pushing back against the slide. The slide can't move, so you have essentially a single shot pistol (with no recoil dampening from the energy that normally goes into moving the slide, which isn't all the recoil.)

The safety is a rather close fit to the frame, so there's little leverage (moment) to bend it.

So, IMO, even though the PT145 isn't designed to do this, it may not hurt it much. I'd be surprised to see anything approaching catastrophic damage.

 

[jwr747]

didn't the " Viet Nam Era" Hush Puppy pistol work that way. think it used a modified slide lock that prevented the slide from working,making the Mod 39 a single shot. jwr

 

[SouthpawShootr]

A common report with early Millenium series guns was that, if fired with the safety partially engaged, the safety would be sheared off the gun by the slide. Evidently, on early Millenium guns, the safety was somewhat less than positive in engagement. This would be the most serious result that could happen. Wouldn't hurt the rest of the gun.