by Jerm_G » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:24 am
If that is the stance of this community, I then need to make this statement very clear. If one decides to toss out the basic safety rules for airsoft, then they have zero buisness owning, posessing, or even handling real firearms period. The liablitiy of attempting to transition between two very simular peices of equipment while blatently disreguarding the most fundimental of safety rules, is a garenteed path to disaster. So much so, that the most dangerous students I teach are not first time shooters, but airsofters. In most, but not all cases, the years of discustingly negligent disreguard for any form of basic safety has in almost every case built a slew of mussle memory issues and a total lack of awareness in reguard to the potential lethality of what they are working with.
Ivan, you are wrong on every reason you have stated in reguards to manipulating the safety. However I dont blame you for that, it's obvious someone has passed false info down to you. Infact, it's a common beleif with many SWAT teams around the country. In several cases, it was found that the disengaging of the safety prior to entry was one of the critical factors that resulted in the wrongfull death of the subject, subject's family member, and in more than just a few cases, the resident of a home that was not the intended target or even in the intended target house. When PROPERLY manipulating the trigger and safety on a AK platform, your time differences are negligable. (0.03-0.08 seconds difference in my case) The proper technique involes sweeping the safety as the trigger finger moves to the trigger in one complete motoin.
Secondly, your statement of requiring fine motor control to ensure the safety lever ends up in the center position is also a fail. Im not sure about your airsoft gun, but I have owned a few AKs, and all have positive clicks for the center position. That being said, Im not sure why you would need full auto. In your previously given example of waiting for a person to "pop" around a corner, two well placed shots in semi will obtain the same result in airsoft as one long burst. The player is hit, if you hit them, he walks off the field. However a burst of full auto inflicts more pain than needed to meet the same goal. Not to mention that you have no clue who that person is that is comming around the corner. It might be an OPFOR, or it could by an admin. The latter is not going to be happy when you spray him down with a hail of BBs because you decided not to take time to KNOW YOUR TARGET, and then toss out every other rule along with rule number 3.
I have found with this community though that you could have one of the top NBA basket ball players telling someone how to throw a free throw and still be told he is wrong. Or you could have a former specail forces guy teaching how to clear a room and you will still hear how he is wrong. Hell I had one individual in this very community tell a 20+ year veterian JTAC (10 years with ODA teams, and current instructor for NSW on close air support) he did not know how to read a map! Now there is an individual who is having an arguement with a professional firearms instructor, who does teach people how to handle AKs, on how he is wrong in reguarding the manipulation of the AK's safety.
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