Another thread that I didn’t want to hijack triggered this train of thought….
VIDEO
https://studentofthegun.com/articles/firearms-training/gaston-glock-invent-negligent-discharge/
This article was written in a very pro-Glock, pro-safetyless pistol POV. I’m ok with that, but it proves my hypothesis. We have the ND’s with training, so we are just adding more training??
My hypothesis is that due to human performance variables that safety-
less pistols will never be truly used without ND’s caused by human error.
The argument for why this basic pistol type is prolific is because plastic manufacturing cost is lower and Glock has not been sued out of existence. So, everybody has now jumped in to ride those coat tails.
Human Performance Explained
That is a quick article how even when performing in skill based mode, humans make errors.
Think of it as a pro basketball player. In practice, they can make make free throws one after another for a long time. In the big game, they occasionally miss….human error.
Talk to any highly trained shooter and asked them(or yourself) have you ever not seated your mag fully, have you ever not held the slide in battery when reholstering, have you ever grasped with less than a perfect grip, have you ever pressed out to a bad sight picture, have you ever missed the A zone, has the trigger ever fired before perfect lock out, etc?
Then ask, how could that error not be the error of not clearing your holster, not hanging up on a jacket zipper, not taking your finger off the trigger when holstering, not preloading the trigger, etc.
In comes a manual safety. Now you have to do an action with a feeling (lower error rate) that has consequences in training (lowers error rate). It is a parallel motion so no time is required to disengage the safety.
Now let’s get crazy and talk grip safety. It is a safety that prevents trigger pull with no other action than obtaining a good grip on the gun. We all know a good grip is the foundation of safe gun handling and accurate fire….so why don’t all guns have a grip safety? Because people literally will choose a gun without this safety due to a belief that they cannot reliably grip their gun properly. Does anybody else see the oxymoron here?
Let’s discuss this…
VIDEO
https://studentofthegun.com/articles/firearms-training/gaston-glock-invent-negligent-discharge/
This article was written in a very pro-Glock, pro-safetyless pistol POV. I’m ok with that, but it proves my hypothesis. We have the ND’s with training, so we are just adding more training??
My hypothesis is that due to human performance variables that safety-
less pistols will never be truly used without ND’s caused by human error.
The argument for why this basic pistol type is prolific is because plastic manufacturing cost is lower and Glock has not been sued out of existence. So, everybody has now jumped in to ride those coat tails.
Human Performance Explained
That is a quick article how even when performing in skill based mode, humans make errors.
Think of it as a pro basketball player. In practice, they can make make free throws one after another for a long time. In the big game, they occasionally miss….human error.
Talk to any highly trained shooter and asked them(or yourself) have you ever not seated your mag fully, have you ever not held the slide in battery when reholstering, have you ever grasped with less than a perfect grip, have you ever pressed out to a bad sight picture, have you ever missed the A zone, has the trigger ever fired before perfect lock out, etc?
Then ask, how could that error not be the error of not clearing your holster, not hanging up on a jacket zipper, not taking your finger off the trigger when holstering, not preloading the trigger, etc.
In comes a manual safety. Now you have to do an action with a feeling (lower error rate) that has consequences in training (lowers error rate). It is a parallel motion so no time is required to disengage the safety.
Now let’s get crazy and talk grip safety. It is a safety that prevents trigger pull with no other action than obtaining a good grip on the gun. We all know a good grip is the foundation of safe gun handling and accurate fire….so why don’t all guns have a grip safety? Because people literally will choose a gun without this safety due to a belief that they cannot reliably grip their gun properly. Does anybody else see the oxymoron here?
Let’s discuss this…