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Ah, the “you are holding it wrong” argument returns

These are trigger-safeties, yeah? The ones that are marketed as safe unless you pull the trigger?

Or is it

# until you pull the trigger

# or don’t clean it right

# or don’t use the right holster

# or don’t bump it against your buddy

Anything else we should add to the list? Seems like it keeps getting longer.

A lot of posts out there for accidental Glock discharges, too. I saw a video of a police officer walking to her car carrying an armful of stuff take one in the leg.

They aren’t as safe as you think. If your deadly weapon requires perfect maintenance or else it will randomly kill someone then you are fooling yourself



The safety mechanism prevents you from pulling the trigger. Speculation around how a P320 could go off on it's own is abound. Proper attention to your weapon is rule #1. So all of those things... ? I never heard the bumping up against your buddy one.

So too does the list of reasons why it could happen without video of it. I see some cops on the group after the fact but I don't see any of it happening and then they check the weapon to see that the safety is still engaged. Which you would think investigators would do.




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