I have little kids in the home. Of course I keep guns out of reach at all times, but it's worth it for that reason alone to have an extra safety as another fail safe.
And should be connected to a brain.Your finger is the dang safety! Its really not that hard
Well get your nicest most accurate 1911 and I'll stand behind a target shooting at you with a high point while you try to put hits on target after you sprinted 50yds after mostly sitting for 6 hours we can compare your hit rate with law enforcementThey have a safety. It's called excruciatingly long and heavy trigger pull. I think that's also why you see so many police shootouts with about a 5% hit rate.
That's another reason I still have, and very much like, my older Ruger P series handguns with the ambi safety decock. Plus those older ones fit in my hands nicely.Manual safety is great unless you're a lefty looking for a compact or subcompact carry gun. Not much out there with an ambi safety
Yep, and some guns that are dropped fire, not from hitting the ground, but from someone trying to grab them as they fall and hitting the trigger. It's easy to say "just let them fall" but reflex is reflex.Rifles and handguns alike have discharged from being dropped before, no pull of the trigger.
One only has to see the design of the trigger, and the sharp edge of the sear and the few thousandths away from falling off the actuator to know that, mechanically, it's possible to be jarred into falling.Yep, and some guns that are dropped fire, not from hitting the ground, but from someone trying to grab them as they fall and hitting the trigger. It's easy to say "just let them fall" but reflex is reflex.
And that would be a problem for me.Manual safety is great unless you're a lefty looking for a compact or subcompact carry gun. Not much out there with an ambi safety
I had an older P95DC that was an absolute tank. It was my first pistol, I paid $250 for it, put thousands of rounds through it… literally many thousands, never once had a ftf or jam of any kind… and stupidly sold it to find another gun. Those things are great!That's another reason I still have, and very much like, my older Ruger P series handguns with the ambi safety decock. Plus those older ones fit in my hands nicely.
Manual safety is great unless you're a lefty looking for a compact or subcompact carry gun. Not much out there with an ambi safety
My dilemma as well
The S&W M&P 2.0 COMPACT is available with an ambi-safety. Although I own one (my doesn't have a safety though), I wouldn't call that a compact. The Shield is what I would call a compact. But the safety on the Shield is really sketchy. It doesn't appear to me that it was designed to be turned on or off in a shooting situation, but simply in a handling or storage situation.And that would be a problem for me.
Good point as well. I had to try a few different brands and types in my Ruger to find what cycled reliably also. This is PD ammo btw, not fmj plinking rounds. I found the PPU PD ammo to be excellent performing in it. It has the ball ammo nose but hollow point design, so it feeds like ball ammo but has the performance of self defense rounds.Safety, no safety is all personal preference. Here is my problem: People buy pistols and never fire them. They holster them and carry them loaded with a box of brand new ammo they bought that same day. They don't even know if the ammo will cycle properly. They don't practice draw. They don't learn the mechanics of the gun.
That's true. Thing is, there are people that don't like guns and don't like to shoot, that are buying guns for protection because of what's going on in the country. Let's be honest…. If you don't have kids around, you don't need a lot of training for a bedside revolver. What would concern me for family members is the large numbers of old folks we see on the gun forums that can't rack a slide, but instead of buying a revolver are trying to buy semi-autos with slides that are easy to rack. To me, that's a recipe for disaster.Safety, no safety is all personal preference. Here is my problem: People buy pistols and never fire them. They holster them and carry them loaded with a box of brand new ammo they bought that same day. They don't even know if the ammo will cycle properly. They don't practice draw. They don't learn the mechanics of the gun.
Defense ammo is expensive, but it's necessary to make sure the gun likes it. Good point.They don't even know if the ammo will cycle properly.