• NonWonderDog [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        A Glock trigger safety switches off as you pull the trigger. It's one motion. All it does is keep the trigger from being pulled if you don't put your finger on it.

          • NonWonderDog [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            ?? It's not a conscious thing. It's not a lever on the side like on most handguns. Literally the trigger is shaped like a pair of scissors, and when you pull the trigger the scissors align and allow it to keep being pulled.

            Literally the trigger safety does not and can not prevent somebody from pulling the trigger. It's deliberately designed not to. It's designed to prevent the gun from being fired if the trigger gets stuck on the holster or something.

              • NonWonderDog [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Glocks are double-action, and cops carry them with a round in the chamber. If you pull the trigger it goes bang. This has always been a boring debate in the gun community about whether this counts as condition 2 or condition 0 or whatever.

                But really no cop should be carrying both a gun and a tazer. They sold us tazers as something cops would use instead of guns. But they still have guns, and now they have a torture device too.

                  • NonWonderDog [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    I see what you're seeing in the video now, but there isn't a safety there. The feature on the gun is a slide catch. It holds the slide back (you have to pull the slide back first manually).

                    I'm not bullshitting you when I say that a Glock does not possess a lever safety on the side. There is no safety. There's just the split trigger, which goes unsafe as you pull the trigger and "safe" again as you let go of the trigger. It's equivalent to the grip safety on a 1911, but on the trigger.