On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 06:26:02 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 1/23/2016 5:37 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 1/23/2016 1:02 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 19:38:14 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:

Ditzy Dan spews...

"I would hate to be the guy with that job!"


Gee...don't y'all think they might have a mechanical machine to do it?

You don't need a live round to drop test a gun. A blank or just an
empty primed case will work just fine. (the latter being the easiest
and cheapest).
I also doubt this is a machine. I imagine there is a protocol they
follow (height, surface, angle etc). They just have some government
apparatchik sitting on a stool dropping guns all day.



Just a clarification ... virtually *all* handguns since the 1940's have
some sort of transfer block or other mechanism that prevents the hammer
from striking the firing pin unless the trigger is pulled. The drop
test required in Massachusetts is intended to ensure the mechanism works
as advertised.


I wouldn't get all warm and fuzzy knowing that, at some point in a gun's
life, it passed a drop test. There are some cowboys out there who have
trigger work done that would make a gun more likely to go off when
dropped. There was a poster here that had work done on his gun that
caused it to be dangerous to even look at. He got rid of it like a hot
potatoe once it was brought to his attention how dangerous that gun was.

Cowboy action shooters have single action pistols and they usually
hold the trigger all the way down and thumb the hammer to shoot. I am
not sure what you would have to do with it. The only way those old
Colt design pistols were safe was with the hammer down over an empty
chamber anyway. It is a little safer in the half cock position but not
much. I think my Frontier Scout is drop safe but I still only load 5
most of the time