External Safeties: A Conversation About This Man’s Refusal To Carry A Firearm Without Them

By Brandon

While visiting a friend at his place of business, a well-known customer of his walks into the office to say hello. After a little small talk, we somehow (surprise!) land on the topic of firearms. We start talking about a few popular firearms for concealed carry, and I tell him what I carry: A Glock.

He chimed in, “I’d never carry a Glock. Not because I don’t like them, they’re fine for the range. It’s because they don’t have an external safety that I can flip on while I’m carrying it. That’s just a disaster waiting to happen.”

This man, we’ll call him Jim, has been carrying for a few years. His firearm of choice is a Ruger SR9c, mainly because of the manual thumb safety. “When the safety is on, I know the gun will never fire,” says Jim.

Going back to his comments about my Glock, I pulled up the Glock website on my phone and explained the safe-action system to him. He looked it over and we discussed it, and I assured him that the firearm would never go off unless the trigger is pulled. It’s physically impossible.

I politely mentioned, “How many citizens, police officers, do you think carry …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation