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SemperFiGuy:
[quote]You tell me which is safer[/quote]
In the USMC at Camp Pendleton we group showered. Altogether naked, of course. Such behavior happened to fit right in with the Southern California culture at the time.
One day while in the shower I noticed that one of the corporals had a Huge Scar running all the way down the outside of his right leg, upper hip to ankle.
Being terminally curious and unduly nosy, I asked, "What's that scar all about??"
He said that while he was in Korea he was leader of a heavy machine gun crew, in which case his duty weapon was a .45ACP Browning M1911 semi-automatic pistol.
One day while he was holstering it in his leather US flap-top holster, it discharged. Hence the long, ugly scar down his right leg..
The courts-martial awarded him six months in the USMC brig and reduction in rank to Private, period. Took him a while to make it back to corporal.
Now, on the other hand, a few months ago I read of a State Trooper who was holstering his Glock .40S&W. One of those little round plastic squeezie thingies on his jacket caught on the Glock Safe Action trigger and the Trooper is now a Blood Brother with the USMC Corporal.
Guess if you can do it with an M1911, you can do it with a Glock.
Guns are Dangerous.
All of my guns are dangerous.
All of Yours are, too.
sfg
Dan W:
--- Quote from: Randy on April 04, 2016, 02:08:49 AM ---A Glock is basically in Condition 1 whenever a round is chambered.
--- End quote ---
NOT TRUE!
A Glock striker dies not have the spring energy required to ignite a primer until the trigger has been pulled far enough to the rear to load the spring and release the striker blocking safety and finally moves far enough to release the striker.
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