Posted on 01/19/2013 9:29:09 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
> Yes, FineSwine is due to introduce her Gun Ban, which would ban all...
Thank you. This past election was sooo important...
I went to my local gun shops last week. There were no rifles larger than a .22 on the walls. They had a good selection of handguns, though.
On the range, I started out awesome, but went downhill from there. I think it was this bug I’ve come down with. I was tiring. Gave up after about 70-80 rounds.
I have a compact 9 mm (Ruger LC9) that has the magazine safety feature.
I actually like it. I was leery of the feature, but I feel confident I can quickly disable the weapon in a second.
It has two other safety features: the standard safety lever and also a key lock that disables the trigger.
I’ve only used the key lock once: I was in a bunkhouse with a group of men from my church. I didn’t take my gun safe on the trip, but felt comfortable that my weapon was disabled while I slept. I know I would have had a delay in arming the weapon, but sometimes you take the risk along with the safety.
Going to our local gun store next week. Daughter in law and her mother want a handguns for home protection. Hope to find a couple 38 J frames. Simple, poit and click.
Some of us don’t want such a beast.
If you’re fighting for your life, and there’s a round in the chamber with no magazine inserted, he11 yeah you want that thing to fire!
You might be reloading, knowing a round is chambered. Your attacker won’t wait for you to reload.
You might not have inserted a mag properly. Happens under pressure.
The connector switch can fail. You can guess when that might be.
Gun shows are frequent. Shootings therein are extremely rare. I mean seriously extremely rare. That three happened on one day points to the most common (yes I’m serious) cause of gun show negligent discharges: sabotage. Given the high profile of Saturday’s festivities, and the growing sentiments of Leftists expressing intent to protect innocents by killing innocents, I’d not be surprised the problem wasn’t guns firing without magazines, but rounds being maliciously chambered in a location where they never are.
consider Marathon running events. For every 100,000 runners there is ONE death during the event.
nobody is banning those. (remember the legendary first runner dropped dead at the end. Heck of a sport to start from that)
If it is a feature YOU like, I’m happy for you. I prefer to still have an operable weapon, even if it’s single shot were I somehow without a magazine. I don’t want more complications added to an already efficient product, not adding more things to go wrong. I also believe that false security comes from even more safety features like this as was suggested (to be standardized?) in his first post about having autoloaders built this way.
Many motorcycles have interlocking switch systems that prevent the engine from running in gear with the side stand down. Some people like it. I repair motorcycles for a living and so they make me money when they fail, but I don’t like to have the system on MY motorcycle.
So we buy guns and motorcycles with the safety features we prefer, hopefully not the way gov’t or even other shooters see fit.
There are plenty of morons riding and crashing motorcycles, and there will always be a surplus of morons pointing “unloaded”, “safety on” guns at things they should not and killing their brothers.
If it is a feature YOU like, I’m happy for you. I prefer to still have an operable weapon, even if it’s single shot were I somehow without a magazine. I don’t want more complications added to an already efficient product, not adding more things to go wrong. I also believe that false security comes from even more safety features like this as was suggested (to be standardized?) in his first post about having autoloaders built this way.
Many motorcycles have interlocking switch systems that prevent the engine from running in gear with the side stand down. Some people like it. I repair motorcycles for a living and so they make me money when they fail, but I don’t like to have the system on MY motorcycle.
So we buy guns and motorcycles with the safety features we prefer, hopefully not the way gov’t or even other shooters see fit.
There are plenty of morons riding and crashing motorcycles, and there will always be a surplus of morons pointing “unloaded”, “safety on” guns at things they should not and killing their brothers.
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