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Many guns are manufactured and sold without safeties. Personal responsibility transcends industry.
by allthenews 8y ago
Many guns are manufactured and sold without safeties. Personal responsibility transcends industry.
- patrickg_zill 8y agoName a handgun in current production, that you can buy in any Western country, that has no safety on it.
- UncleEntity 8y agoRevolvers. Fun fact: one of the bartenders at my old watering hole was playing with the "bar gun", flipping the cylinder closed by flicking his wrist, and shot a round into the wall. Luckily I wasn't there that night because accidental discharges are a beatable offence.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoI've had an ND only once in my life, and it was with a target rifle with a <1 lb trigger pointed downrange. It still scared the bejesus out of me. If someone shot a round into a wall at a bar, it would be more than a beatable offence for me.
- jasonparallel 8y agoKel-Tec P-32?
- danielvf 8y agoHandguns without safeties are really common - in fact most newly purchased police guns in the US today don't require anything beyond pulling the trigger. The two most popular handgun lines in the US, the Glock[1] and the M&P[2], don't have what a laymen would consider a safety. The Sig P250[3], of CounterStrike fame, has no safety of any kind whatsoever. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_M%26P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_M%26P [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer_P250 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer_P250
- patrickg_zill 8y agoALL Glocks have a safety. It is integrated into the trigger pull mechanism. (You should NEVER put your finger on a gun's trigger unless you intend to fire it. This is taught in all good gun safety courses.)
- allthenews 8y agoIt is disingenuous to conflate a trigger "safety" with a classic manual safety. One requires unlocking as a separate action from pulling the trigger, and has it's own state independent of the trigger. I doubt the original commenter new the difference, and was most likely referring to manual safeties.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoThe Glock, one of the most common pistols for law enforcement and military, has no safety catch. There's internal safeties to stop it from discharging if you drop it, but there's no safety to stop you from pulling the trigger and discharging a round.
- duxup 8y agoSadly Glock has one of those on the trigger safeties... it's absurd.
- medntech 8y agoBought this online not too long ago, M&P 9c No Thumb Safety. https://www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore.com/products2.cfm/ID/48965/209304/smith-and-wesson-mp9c-9mm-compact-size-centerfire-pistol-with-no-thumb-safety https://www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore.com/products2.cfm/ID...
- tincholio 8y agoYou're right about pistols, but revolvers have no safety mechanisms (in general, at least), and they're handguns.
- score127 8y agoPeople are stupid, manufacturers get to be stupid many times.