Safeties, topic was MANUAL safeties. There fine at the range but here I am talking about self-defense. Read the fine print in your gun's manual. Sigs like Glocks and some other semi autos have built in safeties. There still safeties in the firearm. But with internal safeties you don't push/pull/flip them off. As YOU pull the trigger the safety or safeties disengage. Glock has 3 safeties, 1 or 2 more than some other semi autos. 3 more than DA revolvers.
Above all else the best safety is your brain. Keep your finger off and away from every single trigger on every gun until you're ready and willing to fire the gun.
What modern striker fired handguns do is allow you to not need to use some fine motor skills finding a manual safety to turn off while you're trying the get the gun into combat. At the practice range switching off safeties is no big deal and maybe safer for the newbie shooter. Fine motor skills are fingers trying to do routine stuff. Stress will make things like finding that manual safety more difficult.
1911s, they work and work well but need more training and another step to get the gun firing. Use the KISS system that these modern guns have.
Old days cops using revolvers, the speed loader or other means of reloading the gun during stress shooting was the biggest problem. Not the gun being limited to 5 or 6 rounds. It was because the fine motor skills slow down when you're under stress. It happens to everyone. At the range some cops would get the handshakes when it came to reloading. But not at any other time. More training will help but it still happens to some degree. The striker fired semi auto was found to be the best and easier weapon to draw, fire and reload under stress.
Hunters think about the rifles and shotguns you hunt with. Likely they need to be carried with the safety on if a round is chambered. How many times a bird or big game hunting suddenly appears, and you quickly raise the gun to shoot. But can't because in that moment you forgot to switch the safety off. That has happened to cops using semi autos handguns with manual safeties.
Above all else the best safety is your brain. Keep your finger off and away from every single trigger on every gun until you're ready and willing to fire the gun.
What modern striker fired handguns do is allow you to not need to use some fine motor skills finding a manual safety to turn off while you're trying the get the gun into combat. At the practice range switching off safeties is no big deal and maybe safer for the newbie shooter. Fine motor skills are fingers trying to do routine stuff. Stress will make things like finding that manual safety more difficult.
1911s, they work and work well but need more training and another step to get the gun firing. Use the KISS system that these modern guns have.
Old days cops using revolvers, the speed loader or other means of reloading the gun during stress shooting was the biggest problem. Not the gun being limited to 5 or 6 rounds. It was because the fine motor skills slow down when you're under stress. It happens to everyone. At the range some cops would get the handshakes when it came to reloading. But not at any other time. More training will help but it still happens to some degree. The striker fired semi auto was found to be the best and easier weapon to draw, fire and reload under stress.
Hunters think about the rifles and shotguns you hunt with. Likely they need to be carried with the safety on if a round is chambered. How many times a bird or big game hunting suddenly appears, and you quickly raise the gun to shoot. But can't because in that moment you forgot to switch the safety off. That has happened to cops using semi autos handguns with manual safeties.