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Is this a loaded question? :-)

How many pounds of pressure are required to fire a standard Glock?

Trigger pull for the Glock is 5.5 pounds. However, I found an article that said Glock measures from the tip of the trigger. When they put the scale in the middle of the trigger in the article it measured 8 pounds.

How man pounds of pressure are required to fire a typical revolver, DA? Haven't found any data on that yet, but since most of the trigger scales only go up to 12 pounds, so I'd say not more then that. My best guess? Around 10 pounds.

How many pounds of pressure are required to fire a typical 1911?

Around 4.5 to 5 pounds.

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Oops. Forgot to turn the italics off. Should have looked like this.

How man pounds of pressure are required to fire a typical revolver, DA?

Haven't found any data on that yet, but since most of the trigger scales only go up to 12 pounds, so I'd say not more then that. My best guess? Around 10 pounds.

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Sorry for all the posts, but that article skips around on some different trigger setups they measured for the Glock. Here's the relevant paragraph of what they found on a stock Glock 22.

The five-pound connector mated with the standard trigger spring is what comes out of the box when a private citizen buys most models of Glocks. It is said to have an average pull of 5.5 pounds. In measuring this combo on my G22, Dave got four pounds, 1.5 ounces when the gauge was hooked to the toe of the trigger, and six pounds on the nose when he attached it to the center of the trigger.

A supposed 5.5 pound trigger, which measured from the toe actually was just over 4 pounds in this instance, and from the center, 6 pounds.

Note that the pull measured on this particular gun was a pound and a half lower then the factory spec. Interesting eh?