Reply #12: I'd bet a year's salary

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that no such thing as "unholstering" made the gun discharge. As for the other excuse - being distracted - that just isn't an excuse at all. Pistols simply do not go off unless the trigger is depressed. Regardless of what this silly journalist may lead you to believe, the Glock is quite drop-safe. Only by pressing the trigger are the safety machanisms disengaged. Only by following the 4 CARDINAL rules of safe gun handling can negligent discharges be eliminated. Those rules are:
1) Keep your finger off the trigger.
2) Keep your finger off the damned trigger.
3) Keep your DAMNED finger off the trigger.
4) Keep your DAMNED finger off the DAMNED trigger!



The fact of the matter is that Glock has somewhere between 65% to 80% of the law enforcement market. The reason is simple - Glocks reduce AD's, thereby reducing administrative costs for the department. Glocks are certainly no less "safe" than a revolver and I don't hear anyone claiming that revolvers are defective in their design.

Personally, I want to be absolutely certain that when I press the trigger on my pistol that it perform it's primary function - THAT IT GO BANG! Can someone - ANYONE - tell me exactly which guns are safe to handle carlessly? For such an accident to occur, at least 2 things had to go wrong at the same time:
1) The operator had to press the trigger
2) The operator had to point the muzzle in an unsafe direction. ie, at his brother officer's head.

This is NOT a design issue. This is a training issue.