Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: A question for this group-- [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)Accidental discharges?
When hunting, you are often required to traverse rugged terrain, including pushing your way through tree branches and brush and so forth. Obviously, a manual safety is required to prevent something like a branch from sneaking inside the trigger guard and causing an accidental discharge. A Glock-style safety would NOT be reasonable for a field gun. This is on top of the regular need to have the gun safe against being dropped or handled roughly. Hunting guns have manual safeties, period.
However, when we're talking about a holstered handgun there is zero chance of such an event happening. Obviously, you want the gun to be safe from discharging when dropped or handled roughly, but "tactical" and "hunting" are two different activities that have different demands on the gun.
Obviously, people carrying concealed will not be drawing their pistol unless there is some kind of serious threat; this is analogous to your "it only goes off when I intend to shoot and kill a deer" comment.
As I noted, there are mechanical safeties with concealed-carry guns. Some are built into the trigger itself, some are built into the sides or backs of the guns, and some are long, heavy, deliberate trigger pulls. Nobody with any brains is carrying a gun with a light trigger pull and no safety engaged.