Revolvers are dangerous

The key word here is "instructor"! And it's just pathetic that this instructor is not properly informed, and he is spreading misinformation!

Oh, maybe the instructors lesson plan was from 1960

 

wow, ignorant people teaching the ignorant. a revolver will never ftf or fte. leave it in a nightstand until the bullets turn green and it will likely still fire. it makes me sad to admit I was born in arizona.

 

Idjits are way too common

 

My S&W PD340 (concealed hammer) would only have 4 shots, then! Thumbs down to THAT "instructor".

 

I detest people that teach opinion for fact!
Everyone has opinions and prejudices, me more than average. Trick is not to spread them as gospel!

 

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” - George Carlin

 

Sounds to me that the "instructor" could use some instruction. Too bad you don't know where he worked, as you could call them and fill them in about his ignorance and prejudice.

 

Everybody knows that if a gun doesn't have a "safety", you're just asking for it.
lol

 

Yeah, modern revolvers have this doo-hickey called a "transfer bar"... it activates the fricken "lasers", fer cryin' out loud.

 

Perhaps the instructor feels that pulling the trigger on any gun should not cause it to discharge. I kinda like that pulling the trigger on any of mine will definately cause it to go boom. Who knows, maybe revolvers in Minnesota are dangerous, or possibly just some instructors are.

 

There is nothing quite like a TV and Hollywood trained expert.

 

not entirely true.. someone can mess up a revolver mainspring or strain screw and it's possible to get ftf.

 

No kidding. Why, I remember seeing Clint Eastwood blast that cretin on that football field from like eighty yards away.. obviously revolvers are more dangerous! sheesh

 

I bet the "instructor's" head would spin if he ever saw a Webley Fosbery Automatic Revolver.

 

Yep... I changed out a 12lb mainspring for a 6lb mainspring and discovered it wouldn't overcome the transfer bar about half the time. Sheesh, these modern revolvers! So I put the 9lb spring in and I'm good to go.

 

Tried the same on a Ruger Redhawk 7 1/2" 44mag during a trigger job and it failed to fire with a light spring. Luckily the next heavier spring worked fine. Now it goes boom every time. Guns are supposed to do that, right?

 

Not necessarily stupid, but ignorant? Yes.

 

He would have to be very very old to go back to the days of not carrying a round under the hammer.

More likely he saw the scene in The Shootist where JW said not to carry a round under the hammer and too that to apply to all revolvers. So many people take what they see in movies as the gospel.