I’d never had a gun before I joined the army After I got out I was shocked to learn gun without a safety were a thing. Still just seems insane to me even though I get why they don’t.
The idea is that a gun that’s being carried for self-defense is meant to be used in a flash under stress. In that event, the manual safety is forgotten very, very often. If you pull a concealed pistol on an assailant and forget about the safety, all you’ve done is handed your attacker a free gun.
And accidents with carry guns due to a lack of manual safety are very rare. They tend to have longer trigger pulls or are double-action, and the real safety is the holster, which should not only protect the trigge guard, but encourage safe finger placement on draw. Some even have a release button that requires you to put your trigger finger in a safe draw position outside of the trigger guard in order to draw.
That’s a Smith and Wesson M&P. They have models of it with and without manual safeties.
I’d never had a gun before I joined the army After I got out I was shocked to learn gun without a safety were a thing. Still just seems insane to me even though I get why they don’t.
The idea is that a gun that’s being carried for self-defense is meant to be used in a flash under stress. In that event, the manual safety is forgotten very, very often. If you pull a concealed pistol on an assailant and forget about the safety, all you’ve done is handed your attacker a free gun.
And accidents with carry guns due to a lack of manual safety are very rare. They tend to have longer trigger pulls or are double-action, and the real safety is the holster, which should not only protect the trigge guard, but encourage safe finger placement on draw. Some even have a release button that requires you to put your trigger finger in a safe draw position outside of the trigger guard in order to draw.