re: Help me buy my first handgun

Posted on 10/5/19 at 2:39 pm to AlxTgr

Posted by DisplacedBuckeye

Member since Dec 2013

73532 posts

Posted on 10/5/19 at 2:39 pm to AlxTgr

quote:
Of course they are.

They aren't.

Maybe mechanical is what you meant. I don't know.

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Posted by Huey Lewis

Member since Oct 2013

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Posted on 10/5/19 at 8:19 pm to DisplacedBuckeye

Just to avoid a semantics argument, let's all agree that: (according to Google)

Manual - Relating to or done with the hands
Mechanical - Working or produced by machines or machinery
(Machine - An apparatus using or applying mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task)

Every firearm safety I've ever operated has been both manual and mechanical.

IMO when comparing safeties, the meaningful difference for the shooter is:

- Firing-action disengagement (Glock safeties, 1911 grip safety, any safety that is passively disengaged when shooting)

- Separate-action disengagement (safety buttons, levers, etc.)

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Member since Dec 2006

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 5:17 pm to DisplacedBuckeye

quote:
They aren't.

Maybe mechanical is what you meant. I don't know.

No - he doesn't consider "automatic" safety features safeties at all.

Therefore if it isn't a manual switch, latch, button, what have you, he doesn't recognize them. I forget how crazy he is on revolvers, but on automatics, the more "safeties" for AlxTiger to undo before he fires, the better, in his opinion.