Keep my finger out of the trigger guard <\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe S&W I use will not fire without the mag fully inserted. It will not fire with the thumb safety on. It cannot fire without a trigger pull and it is incapable of firing without ammunition. In that configuration it is simply impossible that that gun will fire.<\/p>\n
A human error in any single, or any pair, of those precautions STILL leaves a weapon that is only as dangerous as any big chunk of metal with hard edges.<\/p>\n
This brings us to mechanical error. It is possible that this weapon will suffer a mechanical failure that might render some of the safeties inoperable. 99% of the time that results in a weapon too broken to fire at all, but not always. In that case it is STILL empty and I am STILL nowhere near the trigger.<\/p>\n
Granted, things get more and more risky as I get closer to a loaded and unsafe state of affairs… but the core dangers are the same. Mechanical failure and human error.<\/p>\n
The third danger is the mental effect on the sub…and that is outside the scope of what I will discuss here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In an old thread on Fetlife the topic of gunplay came up. Someone asked how risky it was, and how folks manage those risks. This was my reply, and it\u2019s worth capturing here\u2026 The actual risks fall into three categories. I’ll only really address two of them The first is human error. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}