TexasCHLforum.com

sawdust wrote:...I haven't "bought into" the concept of the trigger being the sole safety - I have been a victim of Murphy's Law too many times.

I have just started carrying a chambered round in my pistol. It is a DA/SA with a safety which disconnects the trigger. I feel comfortable with the double layer of protection; if the manual safety comes off of "safe", for any reason, I still have the "safety" of the D/A trigger. I can see that one's level of comfort can depend very much on the specific firearm and its design.

The other aspect you are leaving out is that a DA or DAO pistol with a chambered round should always be in a holster protecting the trigger. Once in the holster, the gun once again becomes an inert and harmless paperweight safe from the grasp of Murphy.

mr.72 wrote:

GaryAdrian wrote:With pratice, it takes .07 seconds more to draw and rack a glock.

One-handed as well?

Back to my assertion that an ambi weapon that is DA/SA with one in the chamber provide the most flexibility.


What if you can't use your strong side? What if you can't use both hands? What if you have an SA and you're fumbling with the safety with your off hand? What if you carry an SA, but you're not cocked?

An ambi DA/SA with the hammer down on a round answers all these questions with the right answer: I can still get off a shot.

joe817 wrote:That's because I'm left handed and will wear the Colt on the left side of my body and the safety will be exposed. Strike one for one in the chamber.

I'm a lefty also. I have dismissed a lot of "right handed" guns. I own some, but won't ever carry them.

You need an ambi pistol like an HK P2000SK. I have v3 which is DA/SA with a decocker. The slide release, and mag release are ambidextrous. The decocker is centered on the back by the hammer, you only use it when holstering anyway.

I'm completely comfortable with the hammer on a round in this gun. The DA pull is long and relatively hard, you ain't going to shoot it unless you mean to. There's an internal firing pin safety as well that doesn't release until the trigger is about 2/3s of the way depressed.

Some of the variants have ambidextrous external safeties though on top of all the rest.