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From: gozer!klm@uunet.UU.NET (Kevin L. McBride)
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Subject: Re: Magazine Safety
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Date: 13 Jun 91 13:53:51 GMT
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In article <35357@mimsy.umd.edu> gordonh@milton.u.washington.edu (Gordon Hayes) writes:
#
#Exactly the reason I hate having a gun with a magazine safety. If
#one follows the first rule of handling a gun (that it IS loaded,
#regardless of what YOU think), the safety not only shouldn't
#be necessary, it should be ludicrous.

[some other things I agree with deleted]

#Anyway, I sold the 59 and I'm looking for a more appropriate 
#handgun now.

SIG makes *combat* handguns.  They don't have a magazine safety.  I
bought my P228 about 2 months ago.  I've fired over 1500 rounds at the
range without a single jam or misfeed, and I carry it almost every
day.  It is the most accurate of the 4 handguns I've owned.  It is
extremely comfortable in my hand and I shoot better with it than with
my Dan Wesson .357 revolver.

As a side note, I think that shooting hot .357 loads in a revolver has
helped considerably in steadying my shooting hand so that I can
control the 9mm even better.  A couple of cylinders full of Mags makes
the 9mm kick feel like a .22.  It might be all in my head, but that's
what counts in combat shooting, right?  Any opinions on this?

(Anybody notice how I've become a big SIG fan lately? :-)

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