See this brief video: https://youtu.be/5YPYjox5qIo
I've seen a number of tests like this...and on forums, videos are often backed by owners of the same gun trying to replicate the tests, some saying "it's a fraud, this video has an agenda!" and others saying "yup, that happens to me too."
I'm gonna try this on my own PPQ tonight...
So here's a simple question from someone who's not that up to speed on the internals of striker fired guns.
If a striker gun is smacked or dropped (PPQ or otherwise), and the striker falls as it does in this video, resulting in a dead trigger but no bang, is this an illustration of the gun being poorly designed, or an indication that the internal striker block safeties work as intended?
One forum discussed this video at length, with numerous people trying this with a live round (hopefully at a range!!! they never said!
). Several said that with hard smacks they replicated the dead trigger result, meaning the striker had decocked. But nobody ever had the gun discharge. Presumably then, this would also have been the case had the gun been dropped vertically onto the ground.
So this would say to me that yes, it's possible to disengage the striker unintentionally, but that if this happens, the gun will not fire because the internal striker block mechanism is functioning as it's intended, and is indeed preventing the striker from firing the round.
Furthermore, the "dingus' in the trigger safety would keep the trigger from falling rearward under the inertia of a drop (which was exactly what didn't happen to the P320, right?).
Some people who commented on this video freaked out and said they were selling their PPQs immediately. Others said "meh, it's unlikely this would ever happen in real life, and even if it somehow did, all this video shows is that the internal safety works as Walther and God intended, and this gun will not fire without the trigger being pulled."
I guess I'd side with the latter opinion.
Am I understanding this properly?
I've seen a number of tests like this...and on forums, videos are often backed by owners of the same gun trying to replicate the tests, some saying "it's a fraud, this video has an agenda!" and others saying "yup, that happens to me too."
I'm gonna try this on my own PPQ tonight...
So here's a simple question from someone who's not that up to speed on the internals of striker fired guns.
If a striker gun is smacked or dropped (PPQ or otherwise), and the striker falls as it does in this video, resulting in a dead trigger but no bang, is this an illustration of the gun being poorly designed, or an indication that the internal striker block safeties work as intended?
One forum discussed this video at length, with numerous people trying this with a live round (hopefully at a range!!! they never said!
). Several said that with hard smacks they replicated the dead trigger result, meaning the striker had decocked. But nobody ever had the gun discharge. Presumably then, this would also have been the case had the gun been dropped vertically onto the ground. So this would say to me that yes, it's possible to disengage the striker unintentionally, but that if this happens, the gun will not fire because the internal striker block mechanism is functioning as it's intended, and is indeed preventing the striker from firing the round.
Furthermore, the "dingus' in the trigger safety would keep the trigger from falling rearward under the inertia of a drop (which was exactly what didn't happen to the P320, right?).
Some people who commented on this video freaked out and said they were selling their PPQs immediately. Others said "meh, it's unlikely this would ever happen in real life, and even if it somehow did, all this video shows is that the internal safety works as Walther and God intended, and this gun will not fire without the trigger being pulled."
I guess I'd side with the latter opinion.
Am I understanding this properly?
