Please Help – Arrested In Westmorland County for Open Carry

[Adam-12]

You are joking, right?

This tangent is how the thread got locked before--just sayin'.

But I don't think he's joking. I started the tangent last time: "safeties" that prevent the gun from going off until you shoot it are not really safeties; they're part of the proper working of a gun. No gun should go off until you shoot it.

What Excel is calling a "hard safety," like the 1911 safety, prevent you from shooting the gun until you deactivate the safety. If it turns the gun into a paperweight[*], it's a safety. If it prevents accidental (and I mean accidental, not negligent) discharges, it's just part of the gun's normal functioning.




[*] Yes, I know, nothing really turns a gun into a paperweight, except maybe cement and a welding torch. But you get the point.

[gnbrotz]

Looks like we've hit another potentially endless loop. Thread will again be re-opened if/when there is a good reason to do so.