“My wife’s new Ruger LC9 has a magazine safety built in. If the magazine is removed it won’t fire even with a round in the chamber. It’s idiots like this guy that forced them to design this feature.”
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Brilliant feature. I hope it catches on.
It can be a mistake to try to substitute technology for understanding.
Let's say you have a pistol with a magazine interlock such that it won't fire without a magazine.
Then you inadvertantly leave a round chambered without realizing it. If you then insert a magazine and pull the trigger what will happen? What did you expect to happen?
If you observe the four rules of safe gun handling, you will be fine without the interlock.
If you have the interlock but fail to observe the rules, you will not be fine.
I don’t want a gun with that “brilliant” safety feature. For a variety of reasons I may find myself with a gun that has a round chambered but no magazine and no way to fire that round. That might cost me my life.