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December 6th, 2011 at 11:34 am
Pressing Mr. Trigger is a fine-motor function. This needs to be done to get the rounds out of the magazine, in order to give you one reason to work the slide.
Getting the magazine out of the handgun is also a fine-motor function. Unless it’s a European heel magazine catch, there is a fiddly little button that needs pressing.
If you are running the slide to clear a malfunction, you need to be thinking. Assessing the malfunction and doing the remedial actions are complex gross motor skills at best.
I know we devolve to our level of training, and that trigger control goes out the window a lot of the time during stress, people do have trouble dumping mags, be they empty or otherwise, and folks lock up firearms under stress then look at the dang thing in wonder.
Maybe not using the slide catch to drop the slide is removing a level of complexity, but the time benefit is certainly there.