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TTAG has an article about manual safeties and striker fired guns.
I have a couple.
All the M&P's have a manual safety.
None of the European guns do.
I tend to prefer a manual safety for carry and demand it for pocket-carry.
On the bigger M&P it makes a handy thumb rest!
But I carried a Glock for a long while with the chamber loaded to no ill effect. The same effect, in fact, that carrying an M&P with a safety engaged.
It is a preference item, do what you want. Which is basically what the article says.
The SIG is likely going to grow a safety before long because it's a tar-baby project gun.
the 2 most important safeties are your brain and trigger finger...carried a glock for so long now i wouldn't know how to use a manual safety...panzer guy
ReplyDeleteI'm a dyed-in-the-wool TDA guy and even I don't like safeties. The long DA pull on the first shot is safety enough for me,. My TDA guns have safeties that are either decock-only, or can't be engaged when the hammer is down (ie, CZ).
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Is TDA (traditional double action) the new way to say double action pistol? To distinguish it from DAO?
DeleteI'm behind on the latest terminology, I guess.
When I was toting the S&W 59 I practiced that first shot a lot. I got quite good at it, too.
Yep, you got it. I'm trying to stay hip with the new lingo. When I started shooting in the 80s, they were called DA/SA pistols (to distinguish them from Single Action pistols), but nowadays it's TDA. -JKing
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