Massad Ayoob makes a case for carrying with safety...

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1911 styles have 4 (slide / thumb safety / grip safety / hammer if it isn't cocked).

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Who the hell drops the hammer on a 1911 with a round in the chamber?

That can go both ways. In the old police academy textbook

Street Survivor : Tactics for Armed Encounters

there is a photo of a uniformed officer in the grocery store sprawled out with a gsw in the throat.
The caption below reads ,

“ this officer died because he was unfamiliar with an automatic “

The whole premise in training is

Repetition develops instinct , so, when the shtf, you automatically act without thinking. Same with those safeties.

We shot for weeks, every day. At the 2 yard mark, upon the bell tone, you will take one step back, draw and fire two rounds from ready gun, then step forward and reholster.

Over and over , every day for over a week.

Years later i realized why. They were developing instinct. Had a dude resist during handcuffing, reached and picked up his rifle from the ground. I realized that i automatically did the one step back and drew. Luckily for him, i noticed that his hands were not near the trigger area. He fled. Picked him up on an escape warrant next day.

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I'm not taking advice from a guy who carries a 1911 as his concealed option on purpose.

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Best option for carry in a self defense situation because shooting twice is just stupid.

K thx.

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For a person that open carry’s I can see this as being a valid point.

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This is a snip from a longer video discussing the pros and cons of a manual safety on Guns. The study he refers to is from the 80s done for law enforcement. So you’re right, it applies better to those who open carry, especially law enforcement.

The longer video is worth a watch. Do you need a manual safety on a handgun?

I think that as a citizen with a CCW, the concerns of weapon retention aren’t the same as a LEO, but it doesn’t mean you can’t end up in the same situation. I found this comment on the YouTube short:

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One of my students in my CCW class had his life saved by the manual safety on his L9A1, a version of the Browning Hi-Power. Long story, but basically a criminal attempted to shoot him multiple times from a distance of about 10 feet. The safety saved his life.

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Massad Ayoob makes a case for carrying with safety

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Massad knows his shite but pimping 1911’s while working for WC is just an infomercial. Don’t get me wrong I love 1911’s but to carry one effectively takes an enormous amount of trying to be proficient.

Don't know much about this guy, but these old police types with 1980s skillsets have really gotten swallowed up by all the GWOT/special operations guys who are flooding the market now with extremely high level knowledge and mounds of real-world experience.

This.

I have a range in my backyard and simply practice the draw with a sport coat on. Don't even need to shoot...but I do.

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Many do have real world experience. Police experience is different than modern civilian tactics. Police do Not train to look like a robot, pivoting as if on a turret, pulling & pushing the handgun from the chest. Thats modern civilian stuff.

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Ayoob is a beast. He might be old but he knows his stuff. Two guys that trained me are students of his. I have watched several of his training videos. He is not out of touch at all.