Pastor's Daughter Accidentally Shot at Church Dies

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174. I was counting the half-cock fail-safe as a safety.

I know it is inappropriate to count it as a safety. I just wanted to see if anybody was smart enough to call me on it. I'm glad to see you are.

Regardless, half-cock has often been used for this purpose with the M1911 - particularly by those who are left-handed.

Here is a reply of mine from elsewhere in this thread and here is a relevant article that might catch your interest.

I understand that there are different schools of thought on this, and I know the improved safeties of more modern pistols can better justify carrying a pistol with a round in the chamber. And I admit that I'm biased in favor of my M1911 training, and it's hard to teach this old dog new tricks.

But as a plain old civilian, safety is more important to me than readiness. I would rather die than accidentally shoot someone else. As you point out, Condition 3 (The chamber is empty and hammer is down with a charged magazine in the gun) is safer than Condition 1 (A round is in the chamber, the hammer is cocked, and the manual thumb safety on the side of the frame is applied). Probably most importantly, Condition 3 is more idiot proof.