This is why we don’t just our guns as flashlights
Weapon-mounted lights and accidental shootings. It’s also why I’m a fan of LaserGrips, with the design no additional action is required to activate it.
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June 9th, 2014 at 8:41 pm
I wonder if this is a variation on, “I was cleaning it and it just went off.” Sue the cleaning accessories manufacturer.
Anyway;
“The senior Marines had experienced a tour of Iraq, and wanted their SAW gunners to have a round in the chamber, bolt open…”
What the hell? Maybe I don’t understand the operation of this particular SAW, but a gun that fires from an open bolt typically strips a round from the feeding device and loads it in the process, so if you fingered a round into the chamber first, you get a new round jammed into the one already in the chamber. OK, maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about. Anyway, the purpose of an open-bolt-firing gun is to avoid having rounds in a hot chamber, so yeah, they load after you pull the trigger, and the chamber remains empty when you let off. That’s the whole point.
“They wanted him trained to overcome that sympathetic muscle reflex (which can be done, but it takes hundreds or thousands of hours of drills).”
Huh? “Thousands” of hours means at least two thousand hours, which is about five and a half hours per day, every day, for an entire year, 365 days with no days off. Really? Dang! How about just keeping the safety engaged until you need to shoot, or keeping your finger off the trigger. I bet it takes longer to acquire a target in your sights than to get your finger on the trigger. You can do both at once– How many hours of training does it take to learn that? Maybe six? Ten? If it takes hundreds, you’re an idiot.
Have we somehow un-learned everything we ever knew about gun handling? Is that what this is, like Common Core curricula we have to come up with a totally new system that has no foundation in the old systems? We have to go through fifteen steps to add two and two, and “thousands of hours” of training to over-come a problem that wouldn’t be a problem if we did it the proven way?
Nothing to see here. Some things to un-see. Move along. Observe the four rules (and understand that to point your weapon-mounted light at something in order to see it, you have to point the weapon at it, which could very well violate one of the four rules, see) and you’re OK. The question to ask yourself is whether you want a weapon-mounted light, which might cause you to violate the muzzle rule. It’s a compromise either way, but I carry a light on my belt and since I use it every day for something, I always know the state of the battery (I don’t have to pull the pistol to check my light’s battery either). Do you pull your pistol when you need to read the fine print on a label at the supermarket or reset a circuit breaker in the closet?
June 11th, 2014 at 9:24 am
Nor is any additional action needed to use that tape switch. It works just like the CTC Lasergrips on your Para.
It’s just that some knuckleheads are trying tut turn them off and on by relaxing their grip and tightening it up again when they’re using their gun as a flashlight like idiots.
It’d be just like using the 1911 lasergrips to play chase-the-dot with the dog using a loaded gun.