safety or no safety

[7urtle]

as i was browsing cabelas for new carry gun i heard a conversation. clerk and customer both saying they would never carry a gun with out safety. All of mine currently don't have a safety but that may change if I go appendix.how many do you fine people carry ?

 

[Joniki]

Everything I carry has a safety of the 1911 variety.

 

[SSGSAD]

Everything I carry has a safety of the 1911 variety.

The ONLY exception, for me, is REVOLVERS !!!!!

 

[nakinate]

Honestly, I've practiced my drawstroke while disengaging a safety so much that it throws me off if it is disengaged or doesn't have one. Go with what you've trained for.

 

[Dead Duck]

Carrying a safety is like taking a shower in a raincoat............................wait

 

[pudly]

Poll fail. No bacon option...

 

[GlockRock]

No safety

 

[nakinate]

Poll fail. No bacon option...

QFT

 

[eldirector]

You talking a manual safety?

My EDC has a grip and trigger safety. No switches to flip.

 

[jerrob]

Striker fired no safety.
DA/SA or DAO...... if it's got one, I'm not gonna use it.
1911 C&L and IMHO, the safest of all when in the right hands and holster.

 

[daddymikey1975]

None of my carry guns have thumb safeties or mag disconnects. I always carry with a full mag +1

 

[warthog]

I only use the safety at home. I can't have my cat shooting me or herslf by stepping in the wrong place now can i? I should actually say that the few pistols I carry have safeties. Reality is I carry a revolver 90% or greater of the time and safeies on those are rare but I actually have a single old revolver that does. On that, though I don't carry it, I always tend to engage it and all my guns when they are at rest on racks or in them. I guess this is how I learned and so has become a habit.

 

[VERT]

I have switched to carrying 1911s. As such my carry guns have a safety.

I have been known to keep a Smith 642 around. Revolver means no safety.

I own and recommend polymer frames, medium sized, striker fired pistols to people. I also recommend no mechanical safety. Instead follow good gun handling and purchase a quality holster.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Nothing I carry has a thumb safety. Everything but the issued Glock has a double action trigger or DA/SA trigger.

I am not completely against thumb safeties. The 1911 style is intuitive and large enough to be swiped even if you grip it poorly on a hasty draw. Other styles seem less ergonomic to me.

 

[GNRPowdeR]

If I'm carrying a striker-fired firearm, then No Manual Safety. If I'm carrying a 1911, Manual Safety.

I carried a 1911 for the better part of a decade, but last year I changed to a Poly-Striker-Fired platform... I still sweep for the safety... LoL

 

[red_zr24x4]

I didn't vote because it depends on the firearm.
My 1911's I use the safety, my Sig's no safety.

 

[Dead Duck]

If I'm carrying a striker-fired firearm, then No Manual Safety. If I'm carrying a 1911, Manual Safety.

I carried a 1911 for the better part of a decade, but last year I changed to a Poly-Striker-Fired platform... I still sweep for the safety... LoL

Same here. I've been clicking invisible safeties for years now.

I even tried to release it on a colt navy revolver last week. Then I looked around hoping nobody saw me do it.

 

[ModernGunner]

Well, guess it matters what is meant by 'safety'. For example, with striker-fired pistols, the trigger mechanism IS the 'safety'. On 1911 types, there's a manual safety and the grip safety.

As for a manual, thumb safety, everything is currently striker-fire, DA/SA, or DAO. So, no manual safety utilized, as it's redundant. For SA revolvers, carried on an empty chamber, so no safety (none are typically installed on such firearms, anyway).

Should I return to 1911-type pistols, I wouldn't carry one without a thumb-safety and that safety engaged. JMO.

 

[Drail]

"the trigger mechanism IS the 'safety'.." Isn't that kind of like saying that the accelerator pedal IS the "brake" on a car? If your finger is on the trigger of a Glock type safety then that "safety" is not going to prevent you from firing the gun or from discharging if it snags on something. Although I am not quite sure what it SHOULD be called - it's not a "safety". Maybe a device for "creative marketing".

 

[nakinate]