>>27676589Everybody spouts this same shit, "hurr are you SURE your finger wasn't on the trigger?!?//"
Nobody fucking decocks by lowering the hammer with their thumb anymore this isn't the goddamn wild west.
I've heard so many stories of the decocker on the HK failing. Even a friend of mine had it happen to him at the range while I was there.
>USP 9 compact (iirc) shooting paper>goes through about half a magazine>wants to let other friend shoot, so he goes to decock it using the decocker>has it pointed downrange like any sane person would while decocking >boom it goes off just as if he pulled the trigger, gun cycles and everythingThis guy's been shooting since he was like 8, owns like a dozen handguns, keeps great care of everything, he knows what he's doing.
I still have no clue what happened, maybe if grainy powder residue got in and jammed up the firing pin block or something? He tried contacting HK customer service once but got no response, so he just cleaned the gun and sold it a couple months later.
I know mostly all modern da/sa guns have well thought out decockers with multiple safety features, but some are just better thought out than others. Take the Beretta 92's decocker, for example. People give it shit because "hurr it's slide mounted" but it actually rotates the firing pin out of alignment when you flip it. So the hammer falls on nothing but the bare frame of the slide. This means even if the firing pin block was even completely missing from the Beretta you could theoretically still decock without chance of ND.
