Good job jet girl ,dont mind long reads if its interesting & it was
Actually, I sent her a message about a week ago asking ...and also asking if she wanted to plan a range trip with me regardless of any purchase (she could shoot all my stuff if she wanted)...but I haven't heard back yet!So any fresh news for the masses?
What did your cousin (?) choose? any logic why?
Probably still getting praises and treats!OH ... and how's the dog?
She's pretty busy, though. So I'll wait a bit and try again. I'd even consent to go shooting at an indoor range if she'd like...and I hate that! LOL
Wow. my fingers are tired just thinkin' about typing that long at a stretch.
I'm not gonna tell someone not to carry until they have had training, as I think that is a personal choice to make.
I guess I'm wondering what you consider training sufficient to carry a handgun?
Most newbies do not know the safety rules by heart. That's why classes are held and those rules are in the operating manuals of every firearm out there. I'd guess that by the time the safety rules are committed to memory, the use of a simple thumb safety can also be memorized. Before you introduce stress into the thumb safety scene, ask someone under the same stress to recite the safety rules.You know them by heart, don't point a gun at anything you aren't willing to destroy, finger off the trigger till you are on target and ready to shoot....
My thoughts about safeties has nothing to do with being smart enough to operate the safety, it seems an unnecessary complication in a high stress situation.
I consider a lot of factors that help me decide that the 1911 is not a good pistol for concealed carry applications. I consider them overly bulky, large in size and low capacity, they have a reputation of being finicky. I prefer to have lighter, smaller, high capacity pistols, with a reputation for reliability, I prefer sigs, revolvers, glocks, as they lack safeties and are simple to operate, with a much better reputation for reliability ( when compared to a 1911).
But how many of them could recite those rules before learning them? After exposure to those "rules", ANYONE would/should consider them common sense.But even with the basic safety rules being "new" the majority of people I have talked to have considered them common sense.