Handguns

[CCoburn]

Back in the day I purchased a few police trade-ins and was always pleased with their condition and like new functionality. I agree with the following video https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SdA8Gjvh4...ture=share

I think for reliability alone though, I'd rather have a single action over a semi-automatic or even a double action. The less moving parts and spring-loaded mechanisms, the less that can go wrong. It would really suck being in a dire situation and having your gun jam on you.

Another thing that used to bug me about SA's is that constant depressed state and spring tension of clips that are kept loaded in case you need it in a hurry. It's probably a good idea to have an extra clip or two for periodic loading/unloading and probably increases the life of the spring mechanism to not be kept in a compressed and loaded state for long periods of time. An occasional drop or two of oil on the spring and moving gun parts as well.

Of course the SA's are a little faster(if they don't jam) when every second counts. When I first got my S & W(SA) .22 it would frequently misfire because the clip wasn't properly inserted all the way. You really needed to force that clip up in there with the meat of your palm to get that one last little click.