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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!smoke.brl.mil
- From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: AMT .380, Colt Mustang, or other?
- Message-ID: <19378@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:04:55 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Nov14.180840.5974@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
- # 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_.
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- As the fellow said, you shouldn't try to apply these antique
- categories (SA, DA) to actions that differ radically from older
- designs. In fact Glocks partially preload the striker spring
- and pulling the trigger completes the cocking (among other things).
- There is no way to cock the striker by manipulating the slide.
- What you are referring to is actually resetting the trigger
- mechanism so that it can engage the tang on the striker, permitting
- a subsequent trigger pull to cock (then release) the striker.
-
- It is better to understand the actual mechanism than to lose
- valuable information by mapping it into terminology that doesn't
- convey much information. The usual definition of "single action"
- is not what you gave but rather "the trigger performs one
- function, that of releasing a striking mechanism that was
- previously cocked by some other means" and "double action" is
- "the trigger pull first cocks the striking mechanism then releases
- it". The problem is that there are guns these days that don't
- exactly fit either model. Glocks certainly come closer to the
- definition of DA than SA but their "safe action" has features
- that aren't adequately modeled as pure SA or pure DA.
-
- #* I know about tap rack bang. I don't want to discuss the merits of
- #this act, merely that it is impossible with single action guns, and
- #impossible with the glock.
-
- ? One most certainly CAN clear a misfire (unlikely) or jam (more
- likely) in a Glock pistol by the usual tap-rack-bang procedure.
- In fact it also works for SA pistols like the M1911A1.
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