missing safety
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Firefighterchen
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That's not a problem.
The LCP has one of the longest trigger pulls I have ever fired. If there is a negligent discharge, the failure happened in between the shooters ears.
You really need to go study up on the firearm you just bought. Study it, understand it, and train with it.
"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." - Cooper.
The LCP has one of the longest trigger pulls I have ever fired. If there is a negligent discharge, the failure happened in between the shooters ears.
You really need to go study up on the firearm you just bought. Study it, understand it, and train with it.
"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." - Cooper.
Purple
New member
That's how the gun comes. The LCP was specifically designed as a carry pistol with immediate need and accessibility into action by those who are not really handgun aficionados. The gun has a hammer block safety to prevent an accidental discharge if dropped, but the real safety for the gun is between the ears of the user. If you're not comfy keeping one in the chamber while carrying because it does not have an external safety, then don't carry one in the chamber (kinda defeats the intent of this little gun). If you pocket carry, get a pocket holster. when you draw it, keep your finger off the trigger until you have identified your target and are on aim. Mainly..get comfy at the range and run a couple hundred rounds through it. That will help you with the familiarity, trust and comfort.
Tammy Cedo
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The 'safety' is you have to rack the bullet before shooting...something I like...but its not for everyone...but there is nothing like that sound to get a bad guy running.
Firefighterchen
OC for Tactical Advantage
The firearm was not built to carry unchambered.
Carrying in that manner is poor training, and will likely get the armed citizen killed if a situation ever occurred. While I agree the sound is a deterrent, you can not count on it, and chances are you won't be able to make that sound anyways.
Actually, the safety is that you have to pull the trigger fully to the rear before the gun will fire. That's something I like. I'm not going to trust my life on a criminal providing me with the opportunity to load my gun after they attack me. I am also not going to trust the the first round will fully load without malfunction when I am seconds away from grave bodily harm or death.
There is no problem with the gun to solve. If you want a gun with a manual safety - than buy a gun with a manual safety.
Tammy Cedo
New member
I don't carry (yet, waiting on my card) and I would not carry without a round being chambered...Hubby's gun is ALWAYS loaded...his is easier to 'unsafety'. I would not carry without a round being chambered anyway.
Friend, are you a Brady Troll? ;-)
With a 6 mile long trigger pull and provided you use a holster as you should there's hardly a chance for an AD. I have an LCP myself.
You should have had the gun repaired instead. The only guns that go off by themselves just sitting are broken guns, and those guns in the imaginary world that the Brady Bunch creates, which I am not so sure you are not a secret member of anyway....
maybejim
Maybejim
Absolutely! Don't pull the trigger until you are on target and ready to shoot something.
None of my guns have "gone off" by themselves.. they always fire a round when loaded and a proper trigger pull is performed. (helps if any manual safety are off too ofcourse 
but the LCP has a long and hard trigger pull, and that's because you are cocking the hammer fully back from a half cocked position and disengaging the internal safety.
But I have LCP - and S&W bodygaurd - I carry both -Part of reason I carry both, easier to get another gun then to reload in stressful situations and should one malfunction, instant replacement. Other reason is, clothing choices in hot weather limit my CC choices, but I can always Open carry my bigger guns if I so chose.
Also, never heard of a conversion or upgrade to a glock that adds a manual safety? and never heard of any gun just going off while being "unattended" either (short of cook off from hot barrel)... Tho I have heard of several people mishandling their firearms and doing damage..
but the LCP has a long and hard trigger pull, and that's because you are cocking the hammer fully back from a half cocked position and disengaging the internal safety.
But I have LCP - and S&W bodygaurd - I carry both -Part of reason I carry both, easier to get another gun then to reload in stressful situations and should one malfunction, instant replacement. Other reason is, clothing choices in hot weather limit my CC choices, but I can always Open carry my bigger guns if I so chose.
Also, never heard of a conversion or upgrade to a glock that adds a manual safety? and never heard of any gun just going off while being "unattended" either (short of cook off from hot barrel)... Tho I have heard of several people mishandling their firearms and doing damage..
titaniumman
Member
If you were so "AMAZED" and bothered by the lack of safety...WHY did you buy such an unsafe firearm?
Warbirds
New member
It's called something like a "slide safe" or something like that. It is a replacement trigger that has a safety built into the trigger. I have seen it in magazines and at the LGS, I am probably off on the name.
I do wish that in conversations like this people differentiate between a true safety and a safety features. A drop safety or hammer block does not serve the same purpose as a real safety, the reverse is also true.
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Sure. Keep your booger picker off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
All of the really small carry pistols are this way.
The Sig P238 is about the smallest I've seen that has a thumb safety.
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The S&W Bodygaurd .380 has a thumb safety that locks the trigger/blocks the slide from cycling. its very similar sized to P238
However, the S&W bodygaurd has for me at least, a single flaw - the mag release can sometimes get activated while in pocket holster on my left side pocket. I add the left side part, cause generally the right side has the LCP, since I am right hand dominate, Left gets the laser-ed up bodygaurd. Weird living a left eye dominant life while being right handed lol.. but at least I shoot ambidextrous!
titaniumman
Member
The only add-on safeties I have seen for glocks are devices that prevent the trigger from moving...are you saying that the trigger on your glock depressed itself while sitting on the fireplace? I think a trigger "LOCK" is about the only safety that will keep a gun safe around you!
