Posted: 12/20/2007 2:04:35 PM EDT
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What is the purpose of this thing? Maybe I'm just having a brain fart, but I don't see a justifiable reason for it. |
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If you drop a cocked pistol muzzle up, and it strikes a hard surface, there is inertia in the mass of the trigger which (when the rest of the gun stops at the surface) can cause the trigger to rotate on its pin, effectively "pulling the trigger". The little tab would stop this. Granted, the mass of the plastic trigger on the Glock is very tiny, and the amount of force needed to make the trigger acutally rotate is probably very high (like a very high drop), but hey, they covered the unlikely. Personally I'm torn about it. |
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Hmmm this got me thinking a little more: Glock site: "TRIGGER SAFETY As the first of the three GLOCK “Safe Action” safety features, the trigger safety prevents inadvertent firing by lateral forces on the trigger. Releasing the trigger will automatically reactivate the safety. " I guess they do think it's to keep somewhat sideways brushes on the trigger from working the action... though I think this is a little weak. |
But doesn't the firing pin safety protect once the striker has fired (unintentionally and without the trigger bar deactivating it)? So I don't really call that a Drop Safety. .. and the Glock "drop safety" is (now that I actually check the site  ) the shelf under the trigger bar that prevents it from moving down (in a direction toward the magwell) and off the striker... Makes sense from the standpoint of a drop that imparts force in that direction (ie a drop that smacks any surface of the gun causing the trigger bar to want to move toward the magwell), but not in the case if a drop muzzle up. |
See that's what I always thought, and never questioned it... But last night a friend asked me what it was for and I couldn't think of a reason, I told him I didn't know. Then the more I thought about it, I figured it can't possibly be in case of a snag, because a snag would probably depress the trigger anyway because in order to pull the trigger it would need to be directly in front of it like a finger or snag on the tip, and a light brushing wouldn't depress the trigger with or without the tab, so it can't be for that either. I think it's the one and only lawyer added part. The reason I asked, aside from the question my friend proposed, was that I am now thinking of removing it/gluing it in place. But if it truly serves a purpose, I will leave it. I think someone should perform some tests to see if it really prevents the trigger from being depressed. |
Think a bit, placing it in a holster with a trigger cover, this stops the trigger from going back. Plus it stops the trigger from going back when the slide is racked . |
I'm not following... |
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Unload your Golck Repeat unload your Glock Now with a slight amount of pressure on the trigger tab, just enough to push it in rack the slide, the trigger goes back with each slide rack when it is in the unfired state. The trigger safety tab keeps it from going back. |
I pulled the slide back just enough for it to pop the barrel loose, and then I pressed in the tab on the trigger, it stayed in, and when I pulled the slide back, the trigger moved with it at the same speed as the slide. But why would Glock put this annoying part in the trigger, just for that? What bad could come of it, if it weren't there? Seems like there must have been more reason to it than that. Pretty funky way of preventing the rearward trigger movement. I wonder if HotRod9mm has any input for us? |
I don't know why it is like that Bly. I just knew it was like that . |
