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Ian from Forgotten Weapons posted an interesting video on this a while back: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QusWrho19zE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QusWrho19z

• nickpinkston 1y ago
  +1 Forgotten Weapons Ian ("Gun Jesus") is amazing, even just from a history / engineering perspective. I like it far better than more Michael Bay leaning content in that space, though there's good fun in a "Can this 50 cal go thru X ?" videos haha.
  • TiredOfLife 1y ago
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    • ivraatiems 1y ago
      Do you have any evidence of this? The only thing I can find anywhere is a video of Ian timing a trans cosplayer who's doing a shooting match dressed as 2B from Neir: Automata (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhn18QhVzVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhn18QhVzVM), and an Instagram post of him with a gay 2nd-amendment advocate (https://www.instagram.com/p/C2nh1HIy_uS/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/p/C2nh1HIy_uS/?hl=en).
      • TiredOfLife 1y ago
        https://www.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/comments/1e78bjz/karl_setting_the_record_straight_on_gun_jesus/ https://www.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/comments/1e78bjz/k... As Karl has deleted his twitter posts, there is a screenshot
        • ivraatiems 1y ago
          This isn't really sufficient, especially not from Karl. I agree with Karl's politics but not with branding someone a Nazi or anti-LGBT for staying out of them.
• mNovak 1y ago
  Just watching this, and he's saying this model has no manual safety. That's an absolutely wild design choice in my mind!
  • willis936 1y ago
    Sig makes many handguns like that and many of them are standard issue for law enforcement in US municipalities.
  • ummonk 1y ago
    Many pistols don't. It does lead to a higher risk of accidental discharges (that's how we got the term "glock leg"). That's also the argument that Sig made - that every unintended discharge was due to user error. The evidence is increasingly clear cut that this isn't the case, and the pistol can go off on its own when jostled while properly holstered, but Sig persists in trying to claim the pistol is safe and blame the users.
    • ivraatiems 1y ago
      "that every unintended discharge was due to user error" -- Sig is doing a fantastic job of making it clear that that's false (as you say). The real statement is "every unintended discharge on a known-safe gun is due to user error." I would believe that all unintended discharges on, say, a Glock 17 are user error. I no longer can believe that of Sigs. And it's like brakes on a car. If it fails for even one person one time and causes one accident, that's too much. The stakes are way too high when you're dealing with something that can take lives if it malfunctions.
      • sokoloff 1y ago
        I’d wager that poorly maintained brakes fail and lead to a collision many hundreds of times per year. I think “unmodified and properly maintained”, neither firing mechanisms nor brakes should fail (and I think that’s what’s in question here).
  • ruined 1y ago
    modern consensus is that a manual safety is more of a liability than a feature - correct handling obviates it, and in the worst case a manual safety may prevent you from deliberately firing the weapon. correct handling requires the use of a holster which completely covers the trigger. a properly-designed firearm is safe in a properly-designed holster. the handgun that effectively established this concept (the glock) does not contain enough potential in the fire control at rest to discharge a round, but notably, the p320 does.
• SAI_Peregrinus 1y ago
  And a humorous "solution" to the problem: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I_p6XEB1ySo https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I_p6XEB1ySo
• Khaine 1y ago
  He just did another follow-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjEhgXAALL8&t=802s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjEhgXAALL8&t=802s