On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:36:37 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:13:20 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 00:39:18 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 12:30:18 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 12/17/14 8:25 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 12/16/14 10:39 PM, Califbill wrote:
New gun for Harry. Shoot up a few thousand rounds quickly
https://www.youtube.com/embed/L_D9weITWDI


Please tell us, Bilious, why *this* would be a new "gun for Harry"?

I've posted here a number of times that:

1. I don't much like fully auto firearms
2. I don't like striker-fired pistols
3. I don't like polymer pistols
4. I don't like semi-auto pistols without a traditional safety

The first pistol I bought many years ago was a semi-auto Glock, and
while I had no issues with it, I got rid of it about a year later and
bought another 9 mm pistol, an all-steel one, with an ambi safety.






I should amend this... I did get to fire and I do like the relatively
new Walther PPQ M2, a 9 mm striker-fired pistol with a terrific trigger
right out of the box, much better than the Glocks I have fired. No
traditional safety, partly polymer, but still a really nice sidearm.
Wouldn't mind owning one.

Which part bothers you, the fact that it is striker fired or that it
is DAO?

Actually it is fairly common that DAO SAs don't have a safety. It is
the same theory as why revolvers don't have safeties.
My Ruger doesn't either. You simply decock it when you are not
actively shooting.
That is part of my regular drill, starting at retention, finger on the
slide, firing 2 quick rounds and returning to retention, finger on the
slide, while decocking. I have just built the muscle memory so it is
instinctive.

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You decock the hammer with a round in the chamber?

What if?

These newer DAs have a decock lever, where the safety would be. It
blocks the firing pin and drops the hammer. It is scary the first time
you do it tho. ;-)

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Yes, but what if... ?

I'd want to have some really safe place to point the gun while doing
that. An accidental discharge can really ruin your entire day.