home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!sunsrvr1.cci.com
- From: sjo@sunsrvr1.cci.com (Steve Owens)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: AMT .380, Colt Mustang, or other?
- Message-ID: <9211161701.AA12468@sunsrvr1.cci.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:09:11 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sunsrvr1.9211161701.AA12468
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY
- Lines: 44
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov14.180840.5974@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
-
- In article <1992Nov14.180840.5974@henson.cc.wwu.edu> Jim writes:
- #scylax!tiglath@uunet.UU.NET writes:
- # I said:
- ###I'm not saying the Glock is bad, but it is single action: the gun
- ###cannot be cocked using the trigger.
- #
- ##If you must categorize guns into single action or double action,
- ##the day will come soon when you will not be able to do so. Glock is
- ##a step in that direction, with their action described as "safe action."
- ##However, the Glock trigger cocks the gun every time, read the manual.
- ##When you pull the slide back the firing
- ##pin (it has no hammer) is half cocked. When you pull the trigger
- ##to the first pressure point (travel 0.2 in.), the firing pin is
- ##put in full tension, or "fully cocked". Pulling the trigger past
- ##that fires the weapon.
- #
- ##If the choice is between single and double action, by your definition,
- ##the Glock is a double action pistol.
- #
- # It half-cocks. You cannot cock the gun using only the trigger.
- #You cannot cock the gun without moving the slide. If you hit a dud
- #you cannot hit it again using only the trigger*. When this is
- #the case, you know you have a sigle action gun, _a gun whose trigger
- #cannot fully cock and release the hammer_.
-
- So does the safe action keep the Glock from going off
- half-cocked?
-
- Sorry, but I *had* to ask.
-
- :-)
-
- #Jim Del Vecchio
-
-
- Steve
-
-
- --
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- "Read between the lines Steven J Owens @ CCI
- Criticize the words they're selling (716) 482-5000 Ext 2867
- Think for yourself and feel the walls sjo@op632.cci.com
- Become sand beneath your feet." - Queensryche "Anybody Listening?"
-