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G's have 3 safeties, good video
How Safe is a Glock Trigger?
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Not possible by design.
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Likely not. The striker cannot separate from the cruciform sear(trigger bar) until the trigger is depressed all the way to the rear.
The video of the cut away shows that pulling the trigger adds energy to the striker spring.
Thank you for asking this. This is the logical follow up question to my original question:
"Is the striker fully cocked when the slide is racked?
Or does pulling the trigger add more power to the striker?"
Negative even in the "semi cocked" position the firing pin is under zero spring tension, it still moves freely untill the trigger bar engages it. However theoretically if the firing pin safety plunger was absent then yes with enough force/inertia it could set off a round.
Actually i stand corrected. Just playing around with my 19 now and removed the safety plunger. The firing pin still contacts the trigger bar in the set position before the pin protrudes the breach face, therefore i do not believe it can set off a round without pulling the trigger.
The striker applies some pressure to the sear/trigger bar, keeping the trigger in the "forward" position. Pulling the trigger completes the spring compression on the striker, disengages the firing pin block, and permits the sear/trigger bar to separate(at full trigger travel) and the gun to fire.
guys .... we know it cant fire unless the trigger is pulled but that is NOT the question.
I was wondering if HYPOTHETICALLY the semi cocked striker has enough energy (when released from the semi cocked position) to fire a round. We know that can not happen in a normal gun.
So imagine a cut away gun. I removed the striker safety and the gun is cocked. Now I take a screw driver and push the cruciform down (I can reach it since its a cut away gun) to release the striker. would it have enough energy to fire a round ?
OR:
I take a glock slide, remove the striker safety, put a primed empty shell in the chamber. Then I pull the striker back to the exact position where it would end up when semi/pre cocked and let it go. Would the striker have enough energy to fire the primer?
I was wondering if HYPOTHETICALLY the semi cocked striker has enough energy (when released from the semi cocked position) to fire a round. We know that can not happen in a normal gun.
So imagine a cut away gun. I removed the striker safety and the gun is cocked. Now I take a screw driver and push the cruciform down (I can reach it since its a cut away gun) to release the striker. would it have enough energy to fire a round ?
OR:
I take a glock slide, remove the striker safety, put a primed empty shell in the chamber. Then I pull the striker back to the exact position where it would end up when semi/pre cocked and let it go. Would the striker have enough energy to fire the primer?
The sear cannot disengage from the striker until it's rearward most position. Discussing a "hypothetical" situation is pointless as such a condition is not possible.
Going with the question as to whether the "pre compressed" striker position has enough force to detonate a round, no it does not.
Why don't you disassemble a Glock and examine the parts, and their relationship?
Your hypothetical "...take a screw driver and push the cruciform down..." (before it's reached it's full rearward travel) is IMPOSSIBLE, because a Glock's design precludes it.
I know exactly how the Glock trigger mechanism works and have disassembled enough Glocks
Why dont you look up what hypothetically means? or why do you not understand that I liked to know if the pre cocked striker has enough energy to set off a primer?
I apologize for having asked a question. Maybe I should be banned from the forum for such an outrageous act?
Read my lasr post, or Wendell's. It cannot ever happen in a Glock pistol. So no sense discussing an impossibility.
Clearly, you do not.
Please do it one more time, just for me, paying particular attention to the ledge upon which the cruciform travels (rearward), the ledge which precludes the cruciform from dropping (downward) until the very last of the cruciform's (rearward) travel.
