....or you can get a DAK or DAO Sig and you no longer have DA/SA transition to worry about, with all the other benefits.
What other benefits? Replacing a trigger which is marginal 5% of the time with one that is marginal 100% of the time? I'm not sure how that's a
benefit. the DAK "sucks less" but it still sucks. It would have been a lot better if they had tried to imitiate HKs LEM system, but I imagine a lawsuit would
have occurred. (on the LEM there is no weight penalty for using the short reset, like there is with the DAK).
To those of you who carry the 1911 cocked and locked: What do you think of Mas Ayoob's thoughts about "hair triggers" in court? (In sum, he theorizes based off Florida v. Alvarez, Magliato, and Crown v. Gossett, that in a stressful situation one may be more likely to have an AD/ND with a hair trigger; that the cocking of a gun sets up the stage for civil atty or prosecutor to argue negligence, negating a claim of self defense (although I think Ayoob means more civil than criminal...).
Oh, for the love of christ, and all that is holy.... not this again. Put down the gun rag. Burn it, actually, you'll be better off.
I mean Mas has probably forgotten more than many of us will ever know... but seriously... his articles are not gospel, and I don't think even he intends them as such. Sometimes you have to read between the lines- the points he tries to get across are not always obvious. There is a lot to be learned from an ayoob article about the things he said as the things he didn't say.
All of that crap is moot- if you have drawn a gun on someone, it should be a situation where you would be justified in using deadly force, which basically renders the rest of it moot, unless you start second guessing your own decisions. If you have a lawyer that wants to use "the gun went off by accident" as any kind of a defense strategy, you need to find another lawyer, and fast. Your actions (or lack of) must be conscious, deliberate, and intentional.... if you don't think the platform you are using lends itself to this approach, then carry a different gun. Only you know what will work for you.
With a 1911, the gun starts cocked, so there is no "cocking"- just pointing and shooting; and the thumb safety gets disabled instinctively as part of the draw stroke.
-Mike