{"id":75,"date":"2011-08-20T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/2011\/08\/20\/mental-note\/"},"modified":"2011-08-20T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T23:11:00","slug":"mental-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Mental note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When buying a new gun, take note of the slide mounted safety. When the firing pin mysteriously stops making contact with the primer, check to make sure an overzealous RSO didn&#8217;t engage the safety while you were putting up a fresh target. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t owned a pistol with a manual safety in a little more than three years. This morning I took possession of a Walther P22. After three rounds of shooting, it stopped going bang. The slide mounted safety on a P22 is just a simple hammer block, so when it is engaged, the hammer will fall but never touch the firing pin. Since I am not accustomed to manipulating a safety before firing, it didn&#8217;t occur to me that an RSO would engage it. <\/p>\n<p>That a gun with its slide back and magwell empty is unsafe unless the hammer block is also engaged will forever remain a mystery to me. And if it&#8217;s a rule that they should do that for me, why didn&#8217;t they catch it the first two times? Or tell me? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When buying a new gun, take note of the slide mounted safety. When the firing pin mysteriously stops making contact with the primer, check to make sure an overzealous RSO didn&#8217;t engage the safety while you were putting up a fresh target. I haven&#8217;t owned a pistol with a manual safety in a little more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-officer-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}