Adding unnecessary complexity
Walther has patented a mechanism that prevents a gun from being disassembled if there’s a chambered round. Back in the day, having watched a few too many movies, I practiced taking a Beretta 92 apart with one hand. That is, gripping the slide and hitting the switch, which would loosen the slide. Got pretty good at it. Could do it if one was pointed at me too. Totally useless skill but that’s what you get from watching Remo Williams. I guess it’d help out bad guys fighting Remo.
November 13th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Which will prevent all of those ADs we have when we clean our weapons.
November 13th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Remo Williams? That would have made the list of really bad B-movies had it been just a little better….
Mel Gibson had a disassembly problem with his Beretta courtesy of Jet Li in Lethal Weapon 4.
November 13th, 2009 at 11:32 am
So you’re a mall ninja ………
And one of my brother Marines showed me the Beretta trick while we were in the sandbox in ’91.
He’s on a SWAT team!
November 13th, 2009 at 11:33 am
i learned it from watching movies.
November 13th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
so if a round gets hung up and jammed just far enough in to trip this new mechanism, yet just far enough out that the weapon isn’t in battery and can’t be fired, there’s a possibility you’ll have a jam that cannot be cleared.
oh, wonderful, i’ve been looking for a gun that can do that to me all my life. and of course it won’t do anything to reduce NDs while cleaning weapons. it might increase them, because you’ll now have to get that round out of the chamber to clean your weapon, and there being two ways to do that, inevitably some people will sometimes pick the wrong one.
November 14th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
I have seen cartridges with wrinkled case mouths hang so tightly *just* outside battery that a hammer was required to beat the cartridge out of the chamber.
What Walther proposes is a guarantee of breaking the firearm if you can’t drive the cartridge out otherwise. Sometimes the slide MUST come off.
I think my “like” of Walther firearms comes to a crashing halt around (arbitrary) 1990 or so.