I don't agree with this one. I was trained to wrap my support hand around strong hand and let my support thumb ride the slide. Sounded scary to me at first, but now that's the only way I can shoot. Never come close to an injury.
silverlance said:Enough conscripts lost their fingers to escaped gas during the turn of the last century that the Russian military required their 7.62 Nagant pistol to have a gas-sealing cylinder design.
Wasn't me personally who was shot, but I did personnally see a guy brought into the ER into the bed next to me who had taken multiple (like 6 or 7, you could literally see the little holes when they cleaned him up) smaller caliber rounds to HIS FACE, and he was perfectly calm and collected talking to the doctors, nurses, and cops.Seemed a bit peeved at he guy who shot him, but wasnt so much as moaning, crying, nothing.Shock, anger, and adrenalin can do some AMAZING things.Its pretty common for someone who gets a traumatic injury (like cutting off a finger,toe,spike into thier head etc) to be perfectly calm and not even feel any pain until quite a while afterwards.Happend to my uncle last year when he cut off his pinky between the knukles (I TOLD him lawyers have no business messing with power tools).Was apparently perfectly calm, and said he felt nothing until after he got to the ER.Freaky, but true.Now if anyone here has been shot and can attest to being very calm afterwards, with a 9mm hole in their body, maybe I'll believe he actually got shot.
DO NOT allow any part of your body be covered by any part of the cylinder
(Like it happens all the time, you know?)
The powers that be agree too, as it becomes an AOW if you stick a vertical foregrip on a pistol, so even if you don't hole yourself you can get an all expense paid trip to club fed unless you do it legally.Well, its official, I won't be using a forward grip on my glock, even though it isn't full auto I don't think I could trust one. Its just putting your hand toooo close to the muzzle.
Anyone else agree?