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Fair enough. I am a DA/SA guy at heart but none of those actions talked about above are inherently unsafe they each simply require differing approaches to safe operation. (1911 safety engagement, striker fired guns without a safety it is imperative they have a properly designed holster that fully and securely covers the trigger. DA/SA we need to remember to decock.
It’s all about training, comfort levels and picking your poison so to speak. Like I said I prefer DA/SA but nothing inherently unsafe about a “Glock” if you will.
I guess I don’t have to remember to decock because on my Da/Sa hammer guns, I don’t ever start off shooting those in Sa. Even when I go to the range to practice, I always spend about 2 or 3 magazines worth of shooting two rounds, then decocking- and doing that over again. Once I understood how these guns work, I’ve put in extensive practice in always starting out in Da mode since that’s what I think makes these guns safer than any striker-fired gun.
But without trying to spark a debate on Glocks and Glock-like handguns vs DaSa handguns, I won’t carry one or anything like it because to me, they’re too unsafe and in order to make them safe, they need a manual safety but then you’re right back another problem which means you now have a safety that needs switching off before you can fire it. To me, the best of both worlds is a traditional Da/Sa hammer fired handgun that doesn’t need a saftey to make it safe and that longer, stiffer trigger makes it harder to pull over a lightweight Glock. Plus for added safety, you have a hammer that you can press against with your thumb so that if the trigger was to ever snag on anything, it’s not going to be able to go off.
Again, this is my stance so if anybody disagrees with what I said, how and what you carry is what what and how you carry.
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