By David Fessenden
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden seems at small-bore vs. big-bore handguns, revolvers vs. semiautos plus holsters and different apparatus for hid hold and self-defense.
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The legal side of gun ownership is a veritable snakepit of good and bad. All gun owners need to take a crash course in the particulars of legal gun ownership in the state in which they reside. These statutes can vary from state to state – and sometimes from city to city – and it is incumbent on the individual gun owner to be well-versed on his local requirements for owning a firearm. A gun owner who is ignorant of these rules and regulations inevitably ends up getting crosswise with them, either unintentionally or intentionally.
The grip safety is a part of the backstrap and is located at the upper rear of the frame. Both of these safeties must be depressed before the weapon will fire. In many of the late model 1911A1s, several manufacturers have designed and installed into their weapons a passive firing pin safety. It operates off the movement of the trigger and is therefore not a technique that the shooter has to be directly concerned with, other than to be sure that he or she fully depresses the trigger. The firing pin safety simply drops out of the way and allows the firing pin, when struck by the hammer, to move forward and strike the rear face of the primer.
DOUBLE TAP: The act of firing two quick shots at your intended target with only one sight picture. DRY PRACTICE: The act of practicing gun handling and marksmanship techniques without any ammunition in the weapon. EMERGENCY RELOAD: An operational technique to reload a fresh magazine into the weapon after it has been fired empty to slide lock. EJECTOR: A frame mounted metal part that the spent cartridge case strikes on its travel to the rear. The case is then ejected out the ejection port opening in the slide.