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My coworker went on to say he has a Glock in the first place because they don't have safeties, so he can "shoot first." I guess disengaging a safety wastes precious milliseconds. (For people who don't know guns, handguns normally have a button on the side that will prevent the trigger from firing, so you can safely keep it in a holster or something. Glocks don't have this button and it's stupid)
Glocks have what's called a trigger safety. It's a little lever on the trigger that has to be depressed for the gun to fire. It's very effective; Unless someone deliberately puts their finger on the trigger and pulls its extremely unlikely for the gun to go off if it's dropped or in any kind of accident. Modern guns rarely if ever go off if they're dropped. Many can not due to their design.
The advantage of the trigger safety over other safeties is that it prevents the gun from going off accidentally while allowing the user to fire. This solves the problem of having to actuate a small button or lever during a stressful situation. It has an additional advantage - The trigger safety is always on. If the gun is cocked and ready to fire then the trigger safety is active. With a conventional safety once you turn it off it remains off until you turn it on again. The trigger safety re-sets as soon as you take your finger off the trigger. If you drop the gun after firing the trigger safety is on and will prevent the gun going off accidentally.
Safeties are entirely intended to prevent dangerous accidents. To prevent a gun from being used it's generally best to get a cable-lock that threads up through the magazine well, then through the action, and it then locked in place. This prevents the action from being closed which in turn prevents the gun firing. There's way way to get around this without opening the lock or cutting the cable.
Which is why trigger safeties aren't safeties.
If the safety interlock on something dangerous is the same button to activate it, it's not a safety.
Of course it's a Glock, if it's not a Glock with these people it's a Sig. Just the most aggressively bland taste in firearms that lack manual safeties
With a sig they can blow their dicks off to scare the intruders
I hope he accidentally shoots himself in the balls while holstering it.
Honestly I’ve never known glocks to be unsafe.
yeah seems like the manual thumb safety is more about preventing negligent shots by careless people honestly
Or kids :/
That’s true, I do like to train my draw so I’m more accustomed to Glock style safeties, but I know that’s not everyone so maybe a traditional safety is better for the average person. Also the serpa holsters were a bad design that caused NDs for a while. I’m surprised they still sell them.
I am 100% convinced he will one day shoot someone by accident. That's just a dangerous way to be
Statistically he's going to end up shooting himself in an accident