NOOO!!!!
Okay, disregarding Kevin "Can't Act" Costner for a moment, and just discussing that last post, my firearms instructor radar went right to BS Condition Red:
"Finger off the trigger" is a condition for glocks and like made firearms with no safety,
Negative. It is for everything. Never count on a mechanical safety. Never ever never ever never. When you're depending on it, it is probably turned off.
and for guys that wave guns around without real cause, like cops making an arrest of a non threatening person for a non violent crime.
And just because I pull a gun doesn't meant that I've gone right to shooting. The last time I pulled a gun on somebody, I was 100% legally justified by (Ability, Opportunity, Immediate threat of serious bodily harm, etc.) but I solved the problem by not shooting him. He saw the gun pointed at him and thought of a better place to be.
Seems like today's cops want to stick a gun to everybody's nose.
Totally irrelevant. I'm a regular guy. But I stuck a gun in somebody's nose. So have about 100 other members I can think of on here who aren't cops.
I feel perfectly safe with a finger in the trigger on a DA revolver, or a DA semi.
I don't care how it makes you feel. You are wrong. And you are being unsafe. That eight pound double action may feel nice and stiff at the range, real secure on a bright sunshiney day, but pump gallons of adrenalin through your system from fear, anger, or pain, and a tiny flinch could pull it. When somebody is trying to kill you, you can pull a piano across a gravel road with your pinky.
If I were in a life threatening situation, (the only reason to point a gun at anyone), you can bet that my finger would be on the trigger, in a position to fire instantly.
No disagreement. ONCE YOU'RE READY TO ENGAGE THE THREAT. Not before. Never before.
Just try to take a full proper grip on your gun with finger extended, then move it to the trigger. You can't do it without loosening your grip.
Then your grip sucks. Get more training.
Your finger will hit the front of the trigger guard.
See above. You're doing it wrong then.
How much time does it take to fire that first shot properly?
Almost none. If you're doing it right. Don't confuse having a gun at the ready (which is neccesary for some situations) and being ready to engage the target.
Time you likely won't be able to afford.
Practice more.
Like I say, if my life is threatened, the bad guy has made the finger on trigger my only choice.
Every situation is different. If I'm home in bed, and I hear a loud noise from my kitchen, and I go to check it out, do I have my finger on the trigger? That way I can shoot my daughter even faster? Or do I have my finger extended on the outside of the trigger guard.
Don't confuse that with, loud noise, now a hulking stranger is coming down the hallway at me, and I put the front sight on his COM and yell for him to stop, you can be damn sure my finger is on the trigger.
Universal "finger off the trigger" is just another bunch of PC crap, necessary for glocks,
Being trained, and having a clue, doesn't make somebody PC. I've trained hundreds of people. Teaching them to keep their stupid finger off of the stupid trigger isn't exactly rocket science.
I guess if keeping people from killing each other under stress is PC, I'm Martha-frickin'-Stewart. But what the hell do I know, I do this for a living. I suppose I could just make crap up and post it on the internet.
Don't make being lazy, or apathetic about safety, some sort of virtue. No matter how you spin it. Disregarding safety doesn't make you smart, it makes you dangerous.
However, I would not own a glock or clone for just this reason.
Your lack of respect for fundamental safety rules, that a six year old can master, doesn't mean that Glock sucks.
There is nothing wrong with a short, consistent, light trigger pull. In fact, they make shooting easier. But if you're going to be sloppy enough to not care about trigger discipline, then you're not going to practice enough to be worth a damn with a gun that has a heavier trigger either.
