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Straw Man

(6,775 posts)
17. Acknowledged and agreed.
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 12:31 PM
Jun 2016

I'm just cynical on technological fixes. My opinion is that the idiot will always defeat the idiot-proofing. Somewhere out there, there's somebody telling an instructor, "Don't worry about my finger being on the trigger on this pistol with a round chambered -- I've got a magazine disconnect safety."

That said, I don't have a huge problem with mag-disconnect safeties. Some of my pistols have them, and some don't. It doesn't affect my decision when choosing a pistol. However, they are useless to me as a safety device because they're preventing me from doing something that I never do and that no one should ever do. Ditto for loaded chamber indicators.

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