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In firearms, a safety or safety catch is a mechanism used to help prevent the accidental discharge of a firearm, helping to ensure safer handling.
Safeties can generally be divided into subtypes such as internal safeties (which typically do not receive input from the user) and external safeties (which typically allow the user to give input, for example, toggling a lever from "on" to "off" or something similar). Sometimes these are called "passive" and "active" safeties (or "automatic" and "manual"), respectively.
Firearms with the ability to allow the user to select various fire modes may have separate switches for safety and for mode selection (e.g. Thompson submachine gun) or may have the safety integrated with the mode selector as a fire selector with positions from safe to semi-automatic to full-automatic fire (e.g. M16).
Some firearms manufactured after the late 1990s include mandatory integral locking mechanisms that must be deactivated by a unique key before the gun can be fired. These integral locking mechanisms are intended as child-safety devices during unattended storage of the firearm—not as safety mechanisms while carrying. Other devices in this category are trigger locks, bore locks, and gun safes.
Teen charged after bullet fired at road sign fatally struck retired Marine sitting on porch, officials say
I don’t know what to say. This is truly sad.
I hope they burn this kid
The debate is currently raging, over whether he should be charged with a crime.
Here are links to some news reports about this shooting:
Surveillance video shows moments before Lakeland commissioner shoots, kills man for stealing hatchet
Did Lakeland commissioner need to kill suspected...
You'd think with all of them "common sense" gun laws they wouldn't have any shootings. I suppose I was wrong!
New York marks first shooting-free weekend in 25 years
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Interesting story out of Texas. If this man’s constitutional right can be taken due to his association with “bad guys” - Who’s next?
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Effingham Daily News - Gun 'sanctuaries' spreading across Illinois ... counties will not enforce egregious state gun laws
What To Know About Gun Sanctuaries | Prepper's Will
A puppet specialist for the Broadway play The Lion King has been arrested in New York for using the theater’s 3D printer to make a gun. I expect we’ll be seeing more of this as the technology becomes more common. I don’t care much for “plastic guns,” but if a ban comes I’m getting a printer...
I feel like this had the potential to go south in a hurry for the CC'er. Glad it worked out the way it did.
Licensed gunowner praised for joining cops in shootout with suspect near I-55