• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    five if he’s practicing safe gun handling and keeping the hammer on an empty cylinder.

    But considering the fact that he has it stuffed in his ass crack, who are we kidding. Yeah…it’s six.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      That was important in 1873. It’s 2024 and modern guns have extra safety features.

      Old revolvers had the firing in on the hammer and could fire if they were dropped and landed on an uncooked hammer. For most of the past century, however, the firing pin has been separate from the hammer and that kind of drop-fire is impossible.

      Guy’s still a dumbass, but every time someone says something so outlandishly incorrect it just gives ammunition to right-wing nut jobs who love to point out how little the other side knows about firearms.

      • CharlieActual@lemmy.zip
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        8 months ago

        Old revolvers had the firing in on the hammer and could fire if they were dropped and landed on an uncooked hammer. For most of the past century, however, the firing pin has been separate from the hammer and that kind of drop-fire is impossible.

        I have some bad news for you. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/06/investigates/sig-sauer-p320-drop-fire/

        That model was one of the most popular service pistols - LOADS and LOADS of them out there. That is also not the only model with drop-fire problems… Remington 700s will unintentional discharge as well:

        https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/remington-fix-triggers-model-700-rifles/

        There are others I cannot recall.

        It’s a problem.

        • AlDente@sh.itjust.works
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          8 months ago

          Since these are not revolvers, they don’t add to the point of carrying on an empty cylinder.

          Outside of the revolver discussion, it’s important to note that both of these examples were the result of QA issues that have since been corrected.

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              8 months ago

              Firstly, I don’t have an obsession with revolvers; it’s just that you responded to a conversation specifically about design changes in revolvers that mitigated the need to carry on empty cylinder.

              Secondly, this is another example of a limited QA issue that has since been corrected with a recall. It doesn’t seem to indicate that a modern revolver with properly functioning parts would be dangerous to carry with all cylinders loaded. Otherwise, are you to say all airbags are dangerous just because of the Takata/Honda issue that killed some people when the airbags exploded?