I screw up as do others but have a good record with guns: one negligent discharge in 59 years. I put a .45 bullet in my truck door. Not long ago I discovered I had not unloaded my shotgun before leaving the field after dove hunting. When I got home and removed it from its case, I had two shells in the magazine but none in the chamber. I had never done that before. This may be age related. i will renew my carry license one more time for sure and then hang it up.
How much time does it take you to jerk your hand away from a surprise prick from a thorn bush? Faster then conscious thought. Once you get used to what it's supposed to feel like, any deviation from that sounds the same sort of subconscious alarm response. Building subconscious proficiency is the goal, and tactile feedback gives your subconscious that stimulus to react to.
It's true a revolver gives you more feedback and time to react, and I think a lot of us here such as myself and Nyeti/DaggaBoy have repeatedly harped on the revolver as the ideal tool for the non-dedicated user. That does not mean this is a binary safe/unsafe situation.
With a WML compatible duty holster, I put a t-shirt completely through the trigger guard (unloaded, of course) and could safely holster. Not the corner of the shirt, but roughly 18" pulled through to the point it was already pushing on the trigger. Obviously some holsters are tighter and wouldn't even allow the Glock to be inserted, but it gives you an idea of the utility. The trick is teaching yourself what normal feels like.
Of course. That's not what it was designed or intended for.
Sorta around sometimes for some of your shitty mod needs.
The problem is that all these guns will be handled ultimately by human beings and some design decisions have less room for error than others when it comes to human beings acting as human beings do.
If you fail to properly clear a Beretta 92 when you attempt to disassemble the pistol you find out when a live round falls out of the chamber when the slide and barrel are removed.
If you fail to properly clear a Glock 17, when you attempt to disassemble the pistol you get a gunshot.
That is most definitely a stupid engineering choice for a handgun.
Engineering that doesn't take the human factor into account is bad engineering.
3/15/2016
If your thumb is on the SCD any movement of the trigger will apply pressure into your thumb because the striker is moving rearward. To continue you have to press the gun into the holster harder, which will increase the pressure on the SCD. The instant there is any movement of the striker the SCD moves with it, or tries to. It translates pressure on the trigger to pressure pushing against your thumb instantly, giving you an immediate cue something is wrong.
It serves two purposes: It warns you that pressure is being applied to the trigger and it gives you a way to block the striker's movement until you can get the problem sorted out.
3/15/2016
[QUOTE=olstyn;1187652]I don't think anyone is asking you to "hang it up," although that is of course your personal choice to make. My point was simply that you seemed to be implying that trained = impossible to make a mistake. Apologies for doing so in a somewhat snarky manner.[/QUOTE
No snark detected. No need to apologize.