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Which is the safest?

  • Brain/Mindset

    Votes: 51 78.5%
  • A firearm with all of the typical 1911 safeties

    Votes: 3 4.6%
  • A Glock's safe-action trigger, or similar mechanism

    Votes: 1 1.5%
  • A firearm with one manual safety

    Votes: 2 3.1%
  • Muscle memory from sufficient training, no thinking required

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • A firearm with a Bio-safety (DNA analysis, fingerprint recognition, etc.)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No safety is needed, guns and shooters are flawless without

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No gun is safe, except for the one in the scrap pile

    Votes: 8 12.3%

Firearms Safety

8K views 54 replies 19 participants last post by  Shipwreck 
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Which, in your opinion, is the most important firearms safety? Why?

My vote goes to the Brain/Mindset being the most important safety, while handling a firearm. My definition for Brain/Mindset is keeping your mind clear and focused while firing, so as not to do something you will later regret. Also, having the situational awareness to notice where people are, in relation to you and your muzzle. I feel that no matter your skill-level, or the amount of safeties on your firearm, if you don't exercise good judgement/thinking, you are setting yourself up for a potentially unsafe shooting experience.

I was recently told that this opinion is very wrong and that I will soon shoot myself in the foot for thinking this way... I'm just wondering what everyone else on the forum thinks.

If I missed a better safety please let me know.
 
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