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Originally Posted by jtkratzer
I appreciate where you're coming from, but at the same time, I find it hard to believe that my aftermarket striker safety lever would be sole item responsible for my damnation in court as long as everything else is in the clear. I find it hard to believe because otherwise, we'd see a flourishing area of the news/press/media covering winning lawsuits filled by "victims" of gun owners.
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I find it hard to believe how you find it hard to believe.
I agree that there are many citizens who use a firearm in self-defense, and in most cases they are seen as a good shoot by the police, and that's that. But, if based on a police report, a DA felt that you for any reason didn't have a clean shoot and that it was worth charging you, don't you think that DA would use ANY information at his disposal to get a conviction against you? Once a DA makes that decision, they want to win. Plain and simple. Whether you want to believe it or not, whether most of us who frequent this site agree or not, there are people out there who believe we are CRAZY for simply carrying weapons. And these citizens are on juries just like the rest of us. Image what they'll think when the DA tells them you've "hot-rodded" the gun to make the it easier and faster to fire. They'll think you're certifiable.
Most of us here know that a trigger job or the like, when done by a professional gunsmith, is relatively harmless. But explaining that to those who are unfamiliar, or downright scared, of guns is a whole other thing.