As soon as it asked me, "What does the SS use?" I was out of there. Thats not a fun quiz, their just fishing.
1. I thought Glocks were both. SA drops the cocked hammer only (like after a discharge or a slide-racking); trigger only does this 1 thing. DA cocks and then drops hammer. Glock hammer is internal...or maybe it doesn't exist? If it doesn't have a hammer (it would have to be internal since its definitely not external) then that would definitely make you right that its neither SA or DA. I think.
SA revolvers are like the old Colt Army, in order to fire all rounds in rapid succession, you have to have you're non-shooting hand working the hammer after every discharge.
But. The 1911 is SA only. The trick is that the slide cocks the hammer after discharge,
so, after reloading from slide-open, or after racking the slide, or after discharge,
even though its not double-action. You're first shot re-cocks hammer and until your empty, just pull trigger and no worries.
2. We've got approaching 1 firearm per capita, and that data was from before President Obama was elected, so we're probably sitting on over 3 hundred million civilian owned (and perfectly legal, thank you framers for the 2A --high five!) guns right now.
a --For those unfamiliar (e.g. not Nick M!) with this deadly, yet neither inherently evil or good, or inherently good nor evil; tool (and every other combination), the hammer, can at any time in closed position be manually, or in this case digitally (thumb) "cocked," which means you pull the hammer against a strong spring force gradually until it clicks in place, like a ratchet with only one "click" rather than an infinite number of them. This hammer in this model handgun, as Nick M knows, is supported there by no fewer than 3, and exactly three, systems of safety, each of them applying equally reliable --1 hundred percent reliability, each of them --support
against falling on the firing pin, which inexorably fires the gun, which inexorably punts a bullet out the muzzle at maximally subsonic velocity, which leaden (dense!), heavy (massive!) spinning (projectile is spinning because of so-called "rifling" grooves inside the barrel of this firearm, spinning it against them until it took on they're implied (to look at it and them [hidden meanings, subtext...these mean
nothing more than
appearance; e.g.,
nothing, and all that
that implies]; e.g., there acting, there actors --who cares how they act?), will, and there actual, physical will, the rifling actually assaults the bullet; it forces it to spin, perpendicular to the direction its traveling in, like a drill, or a spin of the big wheel at the carnival or big county fair), big (just to emphasize, as Nick M is well aware, this model firearm shoots the largest bullet in very high production today, and is heavier than every high production (and above) rifle round (i.e., Nado, WP), except the 50 Bmg --and thats Brownings round! Too! (What we;re talking about here is the discussion between Glock and JWB. Glock is Europe, European, and JWB is open-source. We're discussing which we should settle upon, as a global policy, because we really believe that we have to settle this, we need to make the pronouncement that one is superior to the other, even though, we all understand that, were it true, that either open-source or EU should be declared the winner, and the loser has to by law switch to the other EmOh, the winner would insist that the contest continue, because the only actual contest is that the loser in reality has not accepted that they have lost, in reality, but pretend that they still have a chance of winning.
bSee note a.
cNote a.
dThe 3 indepent systems of safety are the trigger itself, number 1. Number 2, in my mind, is the thumb safety because it is a "long-term storage" type of safety. You "set it and forget it." You get an ambi and you check it every available moment. Its relaxing. Your in control.
And number 3 is the grip safety, which I'm seeing on some other models; neither of these safety features are unusual, every tenth handgun has 1 of them, easily every 10th. Mainly because this is such a popular pattern, open-source. As patterns go, its yet to have been seriously contested, let alone bested. They'res
nothing wrong with the Beretta or the Glock; there
fine. But the model in question, was the best, against the Luger, which is another fine gun, but again, this model, open-source 1911 by John Moses Browning, was not seriously tested by the Luger. The original has not been defeated, thats, the basic argument here. When did this model get upseated? At what point, did the way they do it, ever get officially, in any way, proclaimed as better than the original? He originated the species. Everything else is a variation on Browning's --and,
undisputedly,
only,
Browning's --theme.
eOther things happen too. Thats granted. Because its neither good or evil, we don't
demonize this
deadly tool. We acknowledge it's import. Its dead-ly. Death comes from it.
That doesn't make it any more evil than cars and farm combines, and pencils for that matter (OB). So because we have acknowledged, and protect by law, that none of us has to be a special or important or
even uniformed person to possess and have, at any time (with, as with the freedoms of speech and meeting together and conducting commerce and practicing religion (i.e., human sacrifice (i.e., Vikings
)),
reasonable, regulation. The better we behave, the better the reasonable regulation works. And the 1911 model regulates the hammer with 3 identically, perfectly reliable systems of safety. If the trigger is not pulled,
no matter what else happens,
this gun will not discharge. If the thumb safety is engaged,
no matter what else happens,
this gun will not discharge. And if the
grip safety (this safety is like a "dead mans switch;" if your dead, you
can't disengage it. E.g. by
accident. You have to grip it, to disengage it. You have to
squeeze the handle of the gun, to disengage this system of safety) is not disengaged
no matter what else happens,
this gun will not discharge.
3 The chances of it accidentally discharging is practically nil because the chances of
people accidentally discharging it is much much more likely. When someone (who is educated about using and handling it) fires this tool, it is deliberate (unless there is brain injury, which is like when people operating cars or farm combines, experience a heart infarction or brain hemmorhage)) handguns built according to this greatest of handgun patterns (open-source is the greatest pattern, for machines; that's Europe's pattern, but the American pattern does not force open-source, so the American version lures people to earn profit, essentially perfecting further the already perfect. The new perfect is just modern perfection, and future perfection will replace it as past perfection has been replaced.
Most of us have brain injury. You might think, Europe makes more sense if we have brain injury. But Europe simply has not surpassed the US. The US originated the species, and everything else has been a variation on our theme. Open-source, 1911, more conservative,
and more liberal. Be-
cause we're so conservative. The only thing in dispute, is they're admitting that they're versions are in
ferior. We, being
right, need not, and should not, concern ourselves with trying to force, influence, or otherwise pressure them to admit they're stati as also-rans.), there are murders that otherwise wouldn't have happened. But we are the originals. A world where we don't have the right, and the right protected, to own and have a 1911, which is perfection itself, is not perfect,
deliberately.
The originals. The copies/variations are
all inferior. They're hasn't been a better version, they're's no Version 2. The handgun design competition has been over for a long time. Browning won, hands, down. USA. Open-source. 2A. How do we make open-source the standard? By forcing it, upon other's? Thats...not
open-source.
