Anonymous
8/2/2025, 9:27:10 AM No.64065624
Some negligent engineering choices made by a Swiss-German-American firearms manufacturer, let's say Company A, has rekindled my interest in gun design. The current state-of-the-art for striker-fired handguns, like those from Company B, have at least two safeties that are defeated by pulling the trigger beyond the frame:
1. Trigger safety: Prevents the trigger from traveling with its own inertia when dropped (and maybe if something like clothing gets caught without making full trigger contact)
2. Striker safety: It blocks the path of the striker pin until the trigger bar is moved beyond the trigger safety limit
It is also known Company B advertises its trigger bar actuation as "Drop safety", but to me it feels like calling the trigger a safety, so I personally don't consider this a safety. But understand it's not redundant in the event the sear lock and striker safety fail simultaneously.
Company A decided to make a striker-fired handgun, but for some reason decided to skip the trigger safety. But they also designed it so that the striker safety is defeated when the trigger is moved by 1 mm. It's documented the same trigger can move under its own weight more than 1 mm when dropped on hard surfaces at the correct angle. But most damningly their manufacturing tolerances allow the sear to literally slip off with some wear and bad luck. Some will say the engineers knew the problems but they were forced to go along with it, but that doesn't change the fact, to have these problems in the first place, you must suck at mechanical engineering
Anyway discuss gun safeties. What safeties do you like on your gun? I think grip safeties are cool, I wish they were more common.
1. Trigger safety: Prevents the trigger from traveling with its own inertia when dropped (and maybe if something like clothing gets caught without making full trigger contact)
2. Striker safety: It blocks the path of the striker pin until the trigger bar is moved beyond the trigger safety limit
It is also known Company B advertises its trigger bar actuation as "Drop safety", but to me it feels like calling the trigger a safety, so I personally don't consider this a safety. But understand it's not redundant in the event the sear lock and striker safety fail simultaneously.
Company A decided to make a striker-fired handgun, but for some reason decided to skip the trigger safety. But they also designed it so that the striker safety is defeated when the trigger is moved by 1 mm. It's documented the same trigger can move under its own weight more than 1 mm when dropped on hard surfaces at the correct angle. But most damningly their manufacturing tolerances allow the sear to literally slip off with some wear and bad luck. Some will say the engineers knew the problems but they were forced to go along with it, but that doesn't change the fact, to have these problems in the first place, you must suck at mechanical engineering
Anyway discuss gun safeties. What safeties do you like on your gun? I think grip safeties are cool, I wish they were more common.
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