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**triarmarm** · 07-19-2012, 02:51 PM

I'm one of those people. My carry guns are my glock and my LCP, neither of which has a safety (which to me is a good thing). My holster of choice is a shoulder holster, when I'm wearing a jacket, and I'm just not comfortable sweeping everyone around me with one in the chamber. Watch the video again, I don't think the old man lost any time by having to rack the slide, he did it as he was turning around.

He had time because the bad guy wasnt focused on JUST him. Had he been alone, say in a back alley, getting out of a car, at a gas station and some guy had the drop on him.... thats a whole other thing.

I say again, its silly NOT to carry with a round chambered with modern firearms, saftey or not. Your glock in fact has multiple safties, just no external manual saftey lever. It has a firing pin block saftey and a drop saftey, which are internal and incorporated into the fucntion of the trigger group, and an external trigger depression saftey which blocks reward trigger movement from oblique angles.

Guns dont magicaly just discharge, not good, modern ones anyways. In a proper holster with proper handling, they have a practicaly 0% chance of discharge.

I have what I would consider an exceptional fast concealment draw, I practice constantly. I would NEVER feel comfortable NOT having a round chambered and having to rack the slide during my draw. When I need my gun, I NEED IT, and not .342 seconds later. When its go time, its go time and we dont get to pick when that time is.

heres a good video I like to pass around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syxrpLbaEuY

07-19-2012, 02:51 PM	#34
triarmarm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 369 Senior Member	I'm one of those people. My carry guns are my glock and my LCP, neither of which has a safety (which to me is a good thing). My holster of choice is a shoulder holster, when I'm wearing a jacket, and I'm just not comfortable sweeping everyone around me with one in the chamber. Watch the video again, I don't think the old man lost any time by having to rack the slide, he did it as he was turning around. He had time because the bad guy wasnt focused on JUST him. Had he been alone, say in a back alley, getting out of a car, at a gas station and some guy had the drop on him.... thats a whole other thing. I say again, its silly NOT to carry with a round chambered with modern firearms, saftey or not. Your glock in fact has multiple safties, just no external manual saftey lever. It has a firing pin block saftey and a drop saftey, which are internal and incorporated into the fucntion of the trigger group, and an external trigger depression saftey which blocks reward trigger movement from oblique angles. Guns dont magicaly just discharge, not good, modern ones anyways. In a proper holster with proper handling, they have a practicaly 0% chance of discharge. I have what I would consider an exceptional fast concealment draw, I practice constantly. I would NEVER feel comfortable NOT having a round chambered and having to rack the slide during my draw. When I need my gun, I NEED IT, and not .342 seconds later. When its go time, its go time and we dont get to pick when that time is. heres a good video I like to pass around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syxrpLbaEuY
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