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The Gun thread
Someone forgot how they tested the 1911. They dropped it straight onto its hammer repeatedly from greater heights than what it took to set the Sig 320 off. The final candidate design that became the 1911A0 simply refused to go off even when one tester hurled it down off a platform.
This is *probably* going to open up the Joint Service Pistol competition again.
I'm happy that Dallas PD's first instincts were correct; I also hope that whatever idiot in the DPD brass that was 'assured' there wasn't a problem gets fired or demoted because with all the problems that department has right now, leadership that blithely accepts vendor reassurances that duty weapons can't possibly have a problem when rank and file officers are demonstrating that there really is one is not acceptable.
Problems like this are why if my pistol doesn't have an external safety lever, it better goddamn have a grip safety.
Someone forgot how they tested the 1911. They dropped it straight onto its hammer repeatedly from greater heights than what it took to set the Sig 320 off. The final candidate design that became the 1911A0 simply refused to go off even when one tester hurled it down off a platform.
This is *probably* going to open up the Joint Service Pistol competition again.
I'm happy that Dallas PD's first instincts were correct; I also hope that whatever idiot in the DPD brass that was 'assured' there wasn't a problem gets fired or demoted because with all the problems that department has right now, leadership that blithely accepts vendor reassurances that duty weapons can't possibly have a problem when rank and file officers are demonstrating that there really is one is not acceptable.
Problems like this are why if my pistol doesn't have an external safety lever, it better goddamn have a grip safety.
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