Do Glocks have safeties?

[speednut]

Do any Glock models have safeties.....other than keep your finger off the trigger?

I have seen pictures of Gen 1 Glock 17 for Pakistani Police with a serial # starting with GL made june 1989 with manuel safety I am sure there are others. I have also seen a Glock with a lock on the back of the slide to be unlocked with a handcuff key. Rare for sure but they are out there.

 

[protective measures]

What is taught by all of the top experts in the field is that under the stress of a violent confrontation your "lizard brain" takes over and your survival instincts kick in causing your mind to be unable to form complex thoughts or manipulations.

There are numerous videos that I've seen including the one from Frontsight where people experiencing the mindnumbing stress of a lethal attack forget about the safety & press the trigger repeatedly over & over "trying to make it go bang".

I'm actually working on an article on this very subject for a gun magazine relating a theory I have on this phenomenon that is well known in training circles.
There are cases where people have actually broken or bent their triggers due to the adrenaline driven strength used in some of these instances.

My theory (to be elaborated in the article) is that when ones survival instincts are brought into play in a life or death situation the lizard or primitive part of your brain is only able to focus on the most basic elements of doing what you have to do to live.
As that pertains to the gun that means making it fire... RIGHT NOW, which means pressing the trigger, not the safety.
Subconciously we connotate the safety with stopping the gun from firing which is the last thing we're concerned about doing at the moment.

The safety makes the gun STOP firing or prevents it from firing... the opposite of what you want it to do in a life or death struggle.

Certainly the possibility exists of training to a level where the use of that safety becomes more instinctive, but based on several Instructors frok other schools that I've corresponded with that is a level of training way behind what most people will ever achieve.

That in a nutshell is why the guns with "passive" safeties have taken over the market in the last three decades.

Under stress the focus needs to be out there "doing the job" of dealing with the threat instead of focusing on figuring out how to "make the tool work".

However, only you can decide what you are comfortable with. You may or may not be attacked but if you don't trust yourself to either have a firearm w/o a manual safety or feel like you need to carry in "condition three" (magazine loaded but chamber empty) that is a choice only you can make.

If either of those methods are used it is critical to have greater situational awareness & practice, practice, practice on the range drawing & shooting the same way that you carry.

Unless you're willing to train WAY beyond what the average person will do you will be slower & you will be more vulnerable to attack but like any other choice, it's one that only you can make.

I see students all of the time casually draw their gun & press the trigger only to hear one of the loudest sounds you might hear in a fight for your life where you desperately need that gun. The sound they hear is a "click" instead of a bang". Life or death in a violent attack is often measured (& decided) in micro-seconds. Time is a luxury that the defender usually does not have much of.

In close quarters when you are re-acting to an attack started by someone else and you are already way behind the power curve, it could be one of the last sounds that you ever hear.

 

[DixieDoug]

Damn lizard brain....guess I will never be able to draw and fire in a split second.

 

[Zeake]

Lol. Lizard brain. . I heard about lizard brain reading lynch pin by Seth Godin

 

[DixieDoug]

Lol. Lizard brain. . I heard about lizard brain reading lynch pin by Seth Godin

small world and we are all connected.....

 

[Zeake]

small world and we are all connected.....

No doubt

 

[squirrelslaying101]

Yes, keep your finger on the trigger well..... Lol :thumbup:

 

[AirOpsMgr]

All kinds of dead threads coming to life tonight

 

[offbeat404]

 

[Leatherhead]

All kinds of dead threads coming to life tonight

I'm going to awaken some more.....