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Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte
There's also the simple expedient of maintaining control of your weapon.  |
Have you ever been attacked with a CS grenade?
A typical CS attack on a platoon of well trained US troops will leave about half of them weaponless (ask me how i know).
I ran into a tree and knocked myself almost flat out cold when we got hit by a CS grenade the one time. CS sucks, i had a continuous snot stream from my nose clear down to my ankles, and my eyes, mouth, lungs and face were on fire.
Another time we were in a Crash-hawk and hit some turbulence and one of the Pvt's M-16s went right out the open cabin door.
IOW, spit happens.
Murphy pretty much dictates that if your gun can go off when dropped on it's nose, at some point it will...Probably after it just landed on your foot....
PS: P7's have drop safeties. LOL.....
By the way, i know this is a 1911 thread, but here's one .45 i'd looooooooooooove to have:
