Does anyone else always confuse safetys?
Like if it's red, in my head that screams
>Careful, the gun can't fire!
But apparently it's the other way around.
I fricking hate safetys
Does anyone else always confuse safetys? Like if it's red, in my head that screams
Anon you might be too moronic to own guns.
This, but also I think it's annoying how up/down isn't universal. In my experience most guns, safety down is safety off, but if you're unsure that's what the red dot is for, but what about pistols that have no red dot, or if you have multiples of both? I only thought about this when I got my Makarov, which is overall in excellent shape, but the red paint was worn/missing from the little dimple
As for the beretta in OP’s pic, at least. It’s still a thumb sweep like a down to disengage safety. AFAIK 99.9% of hand gun safeties follow that rule.
>Confuse red for not red
>Confuse F for S
>Confuse straight up not being able to fire and/or cycle the gun with normal function
I'm seconding
>you might be too moronic to own guns
He's right though, red SHOULD = dead.
This seems common place on /k/ like the guy who shot his screen watching cars and it wasn't his first accidental discharge.
Red = Dead
redemption
Yeah dead if I don't shoot that Black person right now.
I've never heard "red=dead" but that could go either way. Who's dead?
How about red=lead.
Or remember that fire burns red.
Red means dead. If it's simple enough to be put into a rhyme then it should only confuse the invalid.
when its a crossbolt style of safety? yes, i hate them very much.
I once shot a workshop .380 pistol that had the safety selector exactly as you say. I negligently discharged in some bumfrick forested area while mindlessly fricking with the trigger trying to get a feel on it thinking it was on safety. It was also an unreliable, dangerous piece of shit, so I gave it away to an uncle who ended up hating it so much it's lying in a ditch somewhere in Indiana.
>it's lying in a ditch somewhere in Indiana.
you know it isn't.
That's what I always hate about crossfire safeties because in my head its:
>"RED MEANS SAFE"
If you shoot revolvers then the safety will rely on you remembering not to pull the trigger if you don’t want the gun to shoot… unless you have a heritage… because apparently they felt you were too dumb for that…
red means blood, it means you're ready to kill.
No but it makes me mad that whoever designed the iPhone vibrate switch got it backwards and made orange vibrate or “safe”. That one I do get backwards sometimes
Safety, always off
A. red = dead
B. >using the safety
what are you gay?
Just buy a gun without a safety moron
HK has official trigger groups without safety for mk23 and hk45,
MP5 pictogram lowers are blatant lies too. Cops don't have 7 round burst.
S-1-30 is maybe less of a lie but god help you if you load a 20.
>MP5 pictogram lowers are blatant lies too. Cops don't have 7 round burst.
Notice how the bullets are not contained in the full auto mode implying continuation, whereas the single shot and 3 round burst ones are blocked off?
You really are a brainlet.
Every time I see this I wonder if they had an eight shot s/w or if they stopped to reload mid frickup…
you'd think the backpressure from the first shot would have let them know.
Skill issue
Who the frick uses a safety, most of them aren't even hammer blocks. I only ever have live ammo in the gun at the range, not even to function test. If I have to cycle the gun at home then I take the firing pin out.
>Like if it's red, in my head that screams
, the gun can't fire!
You are legit moronic. Like, absolutely certifiably, medically diagnosably, grade A idiot mongoloid double moronic.
You get used to it after your first few NDAs
Non disclosure agreements?
Yes, Glock makes you sign an NDA every time you Glock yourself.
Glocks and many others do not have that problem.
Who uses the safety anyway.
Do you read the instructions to?
>Does anyone else always confuse safetys?
Not confuse but I kinda hate these things when switching hands ... I prefer ambi-guns with something doing the same thing no matter what hand does the identical but mirrored motion or don't have the controls on the other side.
Cross-bolts make sense if you only shoot right or left handed exclusively but can cause a problem when you like to change the side occasionally, even if you don't confuse stuff in a relaxed environment I wouldn't want to use a cross-bolt when under lethal pressure.
No worries OP, neglige discard is a normal part of owling firewarms.
well its survival of the fittest - if you're unfit to wield a gun safely it might be a hint not to do it
Same!
I hate the Reddit-switch almost as much as I hate Reddit-finger!
Amen
>Glock 19 has entered the chat
I heard someone needed an effective pistol with no safety switch.
Ahh prefection
(For morons)
Don't feel bad, they've happened to me a few times
>At friends apartment at college.
>Just bought my first pistol from a gun show (I was 18)
>Drinking with friends
>Show them my new Jericho
>Try to manually dewiener
>Thumb slips on hammer, ND into celling Upstairs neighbors too high and drunk (underage and illegal drugs) to call the police.
Second time
>At range
>Showing friend pistol
>Think gun is unloaded
>Point at ground show him how to wrack and pull the trigger.
>Forgot loaded mag in
>Shoot between his feet
Third time
>At parents house.
>Just bought a sig from a guy
>Get home
>Try swapping slides with another sig I had
>Forgot the other sig slide was chambered.
>Pull trigger
>Shoot parents wall
Fourth time
>At my new house
>Playing with a friend's 5.56 AK
>Release bolt
>Slam fires round into ground
Fifth time
>Showing a friend how to use it
>No idea how but a round got chambered
>Show him how the trigger works
>Pull trigger
>Shoots round into floor in the same place as before
Sixth time
>Thought maybe the house was haunted
>Grab a sig
>Physically clear it, (racked the slide 3 times) with no magazine in pull trigger at the same hole
>Round goes off
Seventh time
>Friend brings over a used
>Glock wants me to look over it
>I grab it and pull the trigger without clearing it
>Didn't even realize the thing was loaded.
Eighth time
>Friend brings over his transferable Mac 10
>I had no idea how open bolt guns worked.
>He's showing it off to me I put a loaded mag it and decided to try and release the bolt (I thought it shot from a closed bolt)
>Pulled the trigger for some reason
>Shot 3 rounds into my wall
Overall you shouldn't feel too bad about NDs. It's part of owning guns, and you should get used to them.
Wtf people like you shoildnt owned guns!
newbie spotted
No you're just moronic
an easy way for me to remember it is: red = STOP, as in "stop thinking about it and shoot!"
I unironically remember it by thinking
>AUUGHHHH!!!
>MY SAFETY! MY SAFETY IS RED HOT!
Just like the stovetop glows red-hot when it's on. So a red safety means the safety is on.
I always confuse magazine safeties. I thought Beretta wrote "Careful! The gun can't fire without a magazine!" but it turns out they wrote the opposite because Beretta handguns typically don't have magazine safeties. I hate magazine safeties.
the earlier berettas (80s series) had magazine safeties, there is always ALOT of ADs when you issue out a gun without a mag safety to a police department that had them
>Does anyone else always confuse safetys?
No, not really.
But in your illustrated case, red to me screams "hot. danger!" and thus safety is off.