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- From: scylax!tiglath@uunet.UU.NET
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: AMT .380, Colt Mustang, or other?
- Message-ID: <Bxs4M0.3IJ@scylax.uucp>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 01:10:05 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
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- magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
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- # .. Glock operation ...
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- <It half-cocks. You cannot cock the gun using only the trigger.
- <You cannot cock the gun without moving the slide. If you hit a dud
- <you cannot hit it again using only the trigger*. When this is
- <the case, you know you have a sigle action gun, _a gun whose trigger
- <cannot fully cock and release the hammer_.
-
- If it half-cocks with the trigger. How come I have a fully cocked
- gun and not a half-cocked one when I squeeze the trigger
-
- Listen, this could be endless as long as your definition of single
- action keeps changing. Before it was "the trigger cocks the gun"
- That, the Glock _does_. Now if you extend the definiton to "if you hit
- a dud...". No, you are right, the Glock can't do that. This will
- never be clear cut. Because the Glock has some operational features
- typical of DA, and some of SA. That's why you and I ought to be happy
- with "safe action" as a description. Now to belabor the point: since
- I hit duds very rarely, the Glock is _effectively_ double action
- most of the time, and, conceding your point, single action whenever
- I hit a dud. Happy?
-