Why buy a gun with a decocker??

Because the 3.5# zero-travel trigger on my Springfield Professional is a wonderful thing when I'm wide awake and all systems are "go", whereas the 96D's smooth & light, but longer, pull provides a margin of error when I'm awakened in the middle of the night.

Hammers for nails and wrenches for bolts; I don't try and use one tool for every job. ;)
 
I got a pistol with a decocker because that's the only way a SIG P220 comes.

In 20 years of service I have never seen the 1911 carried in condition 1, and I doubt that all these people were carring in condition 3. So there are a lot of crazy GIs that were getting the hammer down somehow.
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I agree with the first part, but not the second. Think, for a minute, about all the paperwork that ensues from an inadvertent discharge, with an issue weapon - a well-worn .45, no less, and issue ammo, while on duty. And the chance of shooting yourself with one wasn't happy to think about.
 
This thread brings to mind an article I read about 15 years ago. Two police officers entered a house with weapons drawn (.38 revolvers). After checking the house, the senior officer went to interview the occupants to see what the problem was. After a couple of minutes, they heard a shot ring out and rushed into the bathroom. Seems the rookie cop had shot the toilet. When questioned, it was learned that throughout his entire firearms training (didn't have academy's back then), they drew the weapon, cocked the hammer and fired. No one had ever taught him how to uncocked the revolver without firing it.

(Yes, it really happened. Don't remember the who/what/when/where info)
 
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