I can very first person. This is why the military (US) calls firing someplace other than the range or a firefight "negligent discharge", not accidental discharge.
If you drop you're 1911 off you're roof, and it discharge's, is that a negligent discharge? If you drop you're Glock, that doesn't happen. So why do you have 1 time its a negligent discharge, and another time they'res no discharge at all? Whats the difference? The firearm itself is the difference.
So if my 1911 drops and discharge's, thats not my negligent discharge unless another person who drop's there Glock and it doesn't discharge get's pinched for an ND themselves. Its only fair, since we both did the same thing, we dropped our pistol's off the roof, mine went off, and there's didn't, and the difference was mines a 1911 and there's is a Glock.
And furthermore, I'm not going to come into work in a sling or get my palm/hand stitched up because I accidentally pulled the trigger of my 1911 in battery, because I had the thumb safety engaged and I wasn't grasping the grip safety, so the trigger is useless. Meanwhile a million-to-1 shot happen's with you're Glock and you have a negligent discharge. But you had a negligent discharge because the Glock is more prone to accident's than the 1911, not because you sinned and I didn't, unless you want to argue that deciding on the 1911 is correct and deciding on the Glock is sin. Neither of these handgun's is an unreasonable or irresponsible choice, that must be obvious to everybody except nobodies saying it. If you want to lock in on a standard for civilian's though, you've got to give the 1911 the nod because its more concussion-proof. And thats a very mild way of saying that civilian's don't know anything about firearm's --they are more likely to be concussed just as a matter of course.
The 1911, when dropped off you're roof, is more likely to discharge then the Glock. So when you drop you're 1911, and it discharge's, what do you call it? To compare it with the Glock? When you accidentally pull the trigger while manipulating it in some way?
I understand and agree with the policy, in fact I understood it so well that I failed to notice that they're is a real difference between what could go wrong with a Glock and what could go wrong with a 1911. Yes, if you drop you're pistol off you're 2-story roof, yes, I hope its a Glock too. I'm not up on the roof a lot, and even when I am I really can't see how I'm any more likely to drop my handgun than normally, which is near perfection, million-to-1 error rate (1 fumble and 1 drop my whole life --the drop was from my poorly retained holster while playing a sport, and the fumble was just after suffering a concussion). But, it is true, the Glock is better when dropped from height because of the firing pin block. So by that particular measure, Glock win's hand's down.
The thing's that can happen to me, include concussion. Its just a part of my life, unless I want to wear a helmet everywhere all the time (I'm too tall and I hit my head --sometime's very hard), which I don't. Instead, I want to be comfortable with a tool that I can not be in mortal danger, in the likely scenario that at some point I'll find myself concussed and armed.
Where as the M16 series rifle will discharge when dropped. Not me, but I have seen it happen. Oops.
The M16s a good rifle. The M4 is too little barrel, not lethal enough. Its actually more dangerous for our warrior's than the M16 is, for obvious reason's. But whenever this issue come's up I have to bear my heart and soul and talk about that modified M14 with the shortened barrel? Way more lethal especially at distance. SOCOM.
The Stoner is a pleasure to shoot, but it doesn't feel as "organic" as an M14 or M1. Even with a 20-round mag hanging off the bottom it still fit's like a glove, and while recoil actually exist's (as compared with the Stoner), its pleasant. The 7.62 N.A.T.O. chambering's anyway.
So my old fogey is out they're in force now. I prefer .30 cal to .22 cal (Stoner), and 1911 to Glock.
Daniel
