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At March 30, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Anonymous said...: JP I know this comment is off topic but...

I don’t know anything about guns, but wouldn’t a person have to use two hands to chamber a round? Would it be normal operating procedure to carry a pistol like this with a round already chambered?
http://keltecweapons.com/our-guns/pistols/pf-9/

Mike in Moo Hampshire
At March 30, 2012 at 6:50 PM, jurassicpork said...: Not necessarily. In the SEALs, we were trained to do it the right way but you have to remember that cool scene in Valkyrie when Tom Cruise chambers a round into his semi auto by pushing down the tip of the slide against the edge of a table. So, yeah, theoretically, you can do it one-handed.

Why do you ask?
At March 30, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Anonymous said...: That’s the weapon that George Zimmerman used to shoot Trayvon Martin. I’m thinking, and that always gets me in trouble, if I had a gun like that I wouldn’t walk around with a bullet in the chamber and the gun in my waistband. But, I would pull the slide back and chamber a round if I were planning on using it. I personally don’t believe Zimmerman had his weapon holstered when he met up with Trayvon. The website says it’s a Double-Action Only with an automatic hammer block safety. I have no idea what that means. What is the right way to carry a holstered pistol like the PF9?

Mike
At March 30, 2012 at 8:31 PM, jurassicpork said...: There's no right way or wrong way to holster any sidearm, Some guys are more comfortable going Old School with a Sam Browne holster, other guys feel more comfortable with the classic pancake holster under the armpit. It's all a matter of how comfortable you are with whatever format. It's like there's an age-old debate about which is the better shooting stance: Isosceles or Weaver. Neither is. It's just a matter of what makes you more comfortable.

As for Zimmerman and the hammer safety block: It's just a fancy way of saying safety. That's what the safety does (when a gun has one- not all do): It keeps the hammer from striking the bottom of the cartridge and setting off the primer. It's OK to chamber a round in the pipe as long as you have the safety on. It can be effortlessly thumbed on and off. But WHY would Zimmerman have a round chambered for a neighborhood watch that wasn't even registered?

Now, I still haven't heard how many shots were fired at Trayvon but since it's a double-action handgun, I wouldn't be surprised it if it was two and here's why:

Double actions to even experienced marksmen can be tricky because you could easily double-tap the trigger and feel only the initial recoil. The recoil comes with the expanding, exploding gases when the bullet's primer is detonated. If you rapid-fire a second round half a second later, you don't give the second ignition a chance to do its usual thing. Essentially, it almost feels like one shot because the recoil on the second with a double action is so soft.

This could've been happened with Zimmerman in the heat of the moment. If he already had a round chambered, it would've been child's play to thumb the safety off, which is probably what he did. Then again, you can also chamber a round even while holding a cell phone as he was.
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