While I agree, I would probably categorize 4, 5 and 7 as training.Also 4) no untucked shirts and 5) no drawstrings and 6) no pocket carry and 7) holster slowly and without the muzzle covering any part of your anatomy and....
The only places left to promote until it cycles again are DA/SA's, which last cycled from the early 80's and ended in the mid 2000's
OR....the single shot TC or similar hand-rifle.
OR... plasma rifles in the 40kw range
Then, expect it to just cycle again
I really don't think high end competition has any thing to do with handgun sales or even how gun makers are regarded. No one really follows it. Its not moving a Glock/HK/Sig fan off their favorite gun at all. New shooters are totally unaware of it. Really informed people realize it has a lot more to do with the indi.. pardon me, the native/american than the arrow.I think part of the resurgence of the DA/SA guns is less about DA/SA and more about people rediscovering the joys of steel-framed guns.
After several years of domination by Glock, the Production division of USPSA (and even more so international IPSC competition) has seen hammer-fired, steel-framed guns coming out on top. Although the number of competitive shooters is low compared to the whole marketplace, things that work well in competition tend to find their way into general use. While military and law enforcement procurement officers might love the cheapness of plastic and their end users the lighter weight, for people buying a gun for fun shooting, the competitive world provides a lot of hints as to what the best absolute shooting guns are. And the current craze in the competitive shooting world is metal guns. Heavy, metal guns.
Neither the military or police are going back there.
Quite so. And we even started seeing more SA guns like Ruger Security-9 with a DAO-like trigger pull (that one still has a manual safety, but LCP II does not). DAO and SA - yes, DA/SA - lulwhut. It may increase in popularity among the chattering gunnies in the media, but it is no different from the comeback of 10 mm.Most people including LEO these days do not train enough to master the DA/SA pull and its transition. IMHO. It is a great platform but you have to learn to run that gun. It requires a different sort of training then a DAO striker. Both platforms have their pluses and minuses. I personally do not see a trend back to DA/SA guns no matter what a 2016 article states. In fact I see more companies like HK and Sig developing more striker fired guns.
What goes around, comes around. Some of the earliest semi-automatic pistols (i.e. Borchardt, Luger and Roth Steyr) were striker-fired, which were eclipsed by hammer-fired SA pistols, which were supplanted by hammer-fired DA/SA pistols..
I do not understand the worry about safeties and decockers in DA/SA pistols. I do not need to use the safety to carry most of DA/SA guns. One in the pipe, decocked is all you need.
It's funny that the defenders of striker fired pistol talk about "lack of training" to defend the shortcomings of that platform.......so what about learning how to fire that first shot in DA mode?? That is training too....
As far as I'm concerned this pretty much sums up the entire safety argument and is why I prefer DA/SA on a concealed carry pistol. As I've stated before, in SC there are lots of places I can't legally carry so I often have to un-holster and re-holster my pistol while seated in my truck. I carry outside the waistband at about the 3:30 position so I am re-holstering blind and mostly by feel. I can't see what is going on back there so keeping my thumb on the hammer and feeling for any movement while holstering is very comforting. You can't duplicate that with a striker fired pistol. My one striker fired pistol is an XDm which has a grip safety. I can come off that grip safety and use a "pinch grip" while holstering and feel relatively confident that if something gets in the trigger area the gun still won't go off and that is why I chose that model when I bought it.Yeah, I was really just pointing out that there is now very clear, video and photographic evidence that a substantial number of the safetiless AD's have nothing to do with "trigger disciple" or "booger hooks" or Eric Bana memes. The flipper dealy doesn't know the difference between a finger pressing it and some inanimate object pressing on it.
This is exactly what happened to me last year. Rented or borrowed over 30 pistols before deciding what pistol I wanted to buy for my first one. Funny thing is I ended up buying one I hadn't shot but still knew to start I was more comfortable with a DA/SA. If all that was available was Glock, M&P, or XD I probably wouldn't have gotten a pistol ever or went revolver.So maybe new shooters are going more training/practice and trying guns before just "getting the Glock cuz the cop friend said so".
With recent advances in 9 kw plasma they are just as effective as the 40 kw.I had the plasma handgun in the 40kw range but traded it in for one in the 9kw range .The recoil in the 40kw was too snappy.