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- Feb 11, 2011
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Well I wouldn't be worried about shooting someone, I'd be worried about negligent discharges.
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Well I wouldn't be worried about shooting someone, I'd be worried about negligent discharges.
I'll throw out an opinion leaning in the other direction.
Is it really any different if you happen to grab your competition gun to defend your family vs. a bone-stock factory handgun? If it is a "good shoot" within the eyes of the law, then the tool you used isn't relevant. There have been plenty of news stories where victims of a home invasion have defended themselves with their "sporting" gun (trap gun, hunting rifle, etc...).
Has anyone ever been prosecuted in Indiana for a too-light trigger? I mean on an otherwise perfectly reasonable self-defense shooting?
I believe that you would have to worry more about a civil suit than criminal prosecution if your trigger is too light
If someone should choose to modify their own trigger I would agree with your assessment.Any modifcations you make a gun used for potential self-defense should be something that you can explain in case in comes into question. You need to be able to effectively articulate why you chose to modify the trigger. In my opinion, if something helps me to put bullets only where I want them and only when I need them there, it's a good thing. If it compromises that, it's not a good thing.
I love when people make up their own laws. Modifying your trigger will not get you in hot water in court if you are ever in a self defense shooting. I've never seen any court case documents where a light trigger made someone go to prison.
Shouldn't get you into additional trouble. Not "will not." You have no business making such a guarantee. People have been charged for more on less.I love when people make up their own laws. Modifying your trigger will not get you in hot water in court if you are ever in a self defense shooting.
No, it's usually the actual shooting that results in prison time. But idiots sit on juries too.I've never seen any court case documents where a light trigger made someone go to prison.
You don't think they test fire the gun to get a ballistics match? You don't think someone would recognize a lighter trigger? You don't think they take all the vitals on a firearm involved in a shooting?Additionally, how would they know you modified your trigger unless you told them? Maybe that light trigger came from the factory that way?
You could use the same argument about changing your sights for a better sight picture and changing grips for a better hold on the gun. But the thing is, NO ONE in Indiana has ever been sent to jail for doing any (legal) modifications to their gun in a justified self defense shooting. Let's kill this rumor. It's just as silly as the lifetime LTCH going away.
The actual risk of a house fire is pretty low. But the consequences if you have one are astronomical, so most people purchase insurance to cover their losses in case the extremely rare event happens.
Not modding an EDC is that insurance
Please cite ONE instance in which someone in a self defense shooting has had an issue with a defensive handgun with a trigger job.
Massad Ayoob said:So what I tell folks is, nothing lighter than “factory spec” in the trigger. Certainly make your trigger smooth, I’ve never seen anyone accused of having too-smooth a trigger pull, in 31 years as an expert witness, and 39 years of teaching this stuff, and 40 years of writing about it. But what I have seen again and again, is that the trigger is too light, and therefore reckless and negligent, and guilt-producing, and culpability-producing.
Competition Gun Trigger Question - Glock Talk
Not a court case cite as you requested but as Massad has been an expert witness in who knows how many SD cases and knows a hell of a lot more than me regarding SD case law, I choose to heed his advice.
That said, if you modify a SD gun the prosecutor is going to jump all over it and bring the fact up.