re: #189 uncah91

But even police forces, who deploy their weapons professionally, make mistakes.

Yep. My Dad and I meet for lunch every Tuesday. Afterwards we often go to one of the local gun shops to see what’s new on the consignment shelves. Today I saw a Smith and Wesson 649 that had been modified to be double action only. I’d seen a Smith 60 modded this way before and it seemed like a weird thing to do to a gun so I asked the salesman what was up with that. He pointed out that both guns were ex LAPD weapons and that the department had a policy of grinding off the single action sear from the hammers of revolvers. The idea was that offers draw their guns with a lot of adrenaline surging and will reflexively thumb back the hammer for a single stage pull. Then if the gun isn’t fired, still pumped on adrenaline, the officers might forget that the hammer is back and will re-holster the gun, setting themselves up for an accidental discharge the next time they pull out the gun.

We also saw a couple of consigned Desert Eagles today, each with .44 mag and .50 AE barrels. I had no idea how ridiculously heavy those things were.