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SlipperySlope

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7. There is no safety on that pistol.

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #5)

Mon Jul 1, 2013, 07:30 PM

Jul 2013

There is no safety on that pistol or on most other modern handguns.

To be technically precise - there is no external safety on most modern handguns. Their are usually numerous internal safeties.

The difference: an external safety would be some sort of switch or lever that needed to be flipped before the gun could fire. Internal safeties are mechanisms intended to prevent the gun from firing from being dropped, but they all disengage automatically when the trigger is pulled.

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Zimmerman trial-many inconsistencies put together are all showing concocted story-Al Sharpton show [View all] graham4anything Jul 2013 OP

Black = Suspicious. onehandle Jul 2013 #1

I watch Rev Al too, and I agree. notadmblnd Jul 2013 #2

Wrong about the safety wercal Jul 2013 #3

Are you saying Z managed to pull his gun, take safety off and shoot TM while being smothered and uppityperson Jul 2013 #5

There is no safety on that pistol. SlipperySlope Jul 2013 #7

I was wondering about carrying around a gun inside your pants without a safety, but internal uppityperson Jul 2013 #10

whether or not an external safety is a good idea is debateable naaman fletcher Jul 2013 #12

Since you asked... SlipperySlope Jul 2013 #13

Thank you for the answer, I really don't know much about the mechanics. So what is it when uppityperson Jul 2013 #14

When it is reported that the gun is dropped and went off... SlipperySlope Jul 2013 #16

Thank you, non-professional opinion works and that all makes sense. Thanks. nt uppityperson Jul 2013 #18

No external safety wercal Jul 2013 #8

OK, thank you. Appreciate the answer uppityperson Jul 2013 #9

Thank God for people like Al Sharpton. If not for them this would never catbyte Jul 2013 #4

in further displays of wanting it bothways ceonupe Jul 2013 #11

So you're upset that you can't say n_____? Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2013 #15

No im upset that AL does not hold himself to the same standards he wants to hold others to ceonupe Jul 2013 #19

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It's also what I believe Faith warrior1 Jul 2013 #6

Is everybody watching the same trial? moondust Jul 2013 #17