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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you mentioned the amount of training and how fast someone could pull a gun.

I was surprised that the person who shot the YouTuber at Dulles Town Center pulled his gun out AND shot it so fast. It’s almost as though he did that in one fluid motion, which seems to indicate a high level of skill.

Maybe that guy learned to shoot as a kid? Or would the training to use a gun be better than some of us assume.

I don’t carry a gun btw.
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It was a decently fast draw but it’s nothing crazy for concealed carry folks who have a bit of practice. A lot of modern guns like Glocks don’t have a manual safety which means you only need to pull the trigger to fire once it’s removed from the holster which speeds things up. Manual safeties can get you killed if you forget to flip it off in the stress of a self defense situation. Glocks have several internal safeties which make them safe to carry with a chambered round as long as the trigger is protected. [/quote]

Thank you. How would a manual safety get you killed if you forget to flip it off?

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The manual safety poster has been reading too many gun magazines. The thesis is that since the gun won’t fire with the safety engaged, if the user needs the gun in an emergency but fails to disengage (not “flip off”) the safety, they will not be able to discharge a round and might be overcome by their attacker before they sort out the issue.

Firearm safeties vary in design, and some are easier to miss than others, but if a person has done any practice with their weapon they should be disengaging the safety as part of the draw stroke and should not need to think about it.

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Indeed you shouldn’t need to think about it with proper training, but it is an additional step that can in theory slow you down when every split second counts. Self defense situations are very up close and personal where you are going to be in extreme fight or flight mode, I prefer to have fewer things to think about in a scenario like that. It’s more a matter of opinion and depends on the type of person carrying. The US military insists on manual safeties on their sidearms for regular enlisted soldiers and they had Sig create a special version of the P320 that has one. The Navy SEAL teams use Glock 19’s with no manual safety. [/quote]

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