Comments on: S&W Lock Issues

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:25:43 +0000

A safety on a gun will never replace the brain of the gunowner. If that doesn’t work, the safety is. at best useless, at worst, dangerous.

By: teqjack

teqjack — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:05:18 +0000

oops .

By: teqjack

teqjack — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:04:35 +0000

Well, maybe just the one safety, for semiautos – the one on every such handgun (and many long guns) since the late Nineties (er, 1890s).

Has there been any follow-up on the pilot whose gun discharged in the cockpit? Last I heard, the trigger lock got caught on something as he was (for the umpteenth time per flight, as required) putting it in the lockbox. Irony?

By: Tam

Tam — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:39:49 +0000

Are you talking about the mag safety?

On what?

By: Chas

Chas — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:39:29 +0000

Smith & Wesson’s, Brady Center approved, integral lock is redundant. All my modern guns already require a “key” to enable them to fire. It’s called a cartridge.

By: HardCorps

HardCorps — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:32:17 +0000

Are you talking about the mag safety? Or is this a something different? I really think glock and SIG have their internal safeties down – at the cost of massive trigger creep though…but at least the glocks are great for low cost, reliable, quality protection. If I couldn’t have afforded my 1911, I would have stayed with glock.

By: Tam

Tam — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:43:24 +0000

How come interchangeable backstraps on newfangled plastic guns are such a big Do-whoop. My guns have had them for almost 100 years. :p

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:16:52 +0000

Ya know, I knew I wasn’t that into 1911s but having to google up MSH proved it.

By: Tam

Tam — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:12:01 +0000

I think they’re unnecessary, too.

Unfortunately, several state legislatures have been convinced otherwise. Wonder why your car meets California emissions?

Look for them to be added to more and more guns every year. (Glock already has them; but since they’re a module that fits in the hollow backstrap, it’s easier for them to make it optional. Springfield armory could do likewise with its ILS, but that would require them keeping two different types of MSH on hand for each different pistol model. Since so many 1911 owners toss the MSH for an aftermarket one of their preference anyway, Springfield probably considered it was a moot point.)