I'm not an expert in this area, but I thought modern pistols and revolvers were safe to carry with a chambered round. Older single action pistols, the old cowboy guns, could discharge if dropped with a round in the chamber. My understanding is that modern guns have redundant safety features to prevent that. Some modern pistols, eg Glocks, don't even have a safety, per se. They have a trigger interlock mechanism, where you have to press a secondary trigger before the main trigger engages. Typically police carry them with a round chambered. Military practice is to carry them with an empty chamber, at least according to Larry Vickers. There are three distinct styles of firing mechanisms for pistols. One, the 1911 single action style, where you have to cock the hammer , either manually or by cycling the slide. They are typically carried "cocked and blocked", ie with a round chambered and the hammer cocked and safety on. Or they can be carried with an empty chamber, but since a single stack 1911 only holds 7 or 8 rounds, doing so costs you a round. Two, are true double action pistols, which have a hammer which you can cycle by pulling the trigger, like a revolver. A Sig is a typical example. They usually have a safety and decocking lever. Typically, I believe you would carry these with a roudn in the chmaber. Three, there are striker fired pistols, like Glocks, Taurus, etc. They don't have a hammer and are fired by an internal striker. It is a design that has certain advantages, such as avoiding the long trigger pull of the first shot of a double action design. They are designed to be carried with a chambered round. I read that Zimmerman's kel-Tec didn't cylce after his first shot. That raised questions to me. Possible reasons for not cycling are a jam, or the slide being obstructed or held, suggesting a struggle for the weapon.
Even better, the Baretta Tomcat .32 has a pop up barrel allowing a round to be chambered with no slide action.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please show the link you talk about. You lie and distort. Trayvon talk about "plant" on the internet with his friend. Yes, he talking about marijuana. No, he is not talkiing to "clients" like the big drug dealer. Do YOU know how so many people in the high school try marijuana? Do YOU think they will become the criminal and the murderer because of marijuana?
"Serious injuries don't always bleed heavily, and some relatively minor injuries (for example, scalp wounds) can bleed quite a lot." http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/000045.htm "Minor cuts on the head often bleed heavily because the face and scalp have many blood vessels close to the surface of the skin. Although this amount of bleeding may be alarming, many times the injury is not severe and the bleeding will stop with treatment you can do at home." http://www.cigna.com/individualandf...ing-from-a-minor-head-wound-sig39875spec.html
Leave em be, trend. They need this worldview. Think about it. Go back and look at when some of these folks joined. They came here to learn to trade, and then became ghosts. Now, they are pissed. As an individual who has seen the entire timeline of a human, these 50 somethings have realized that it is str8 downhill from where they are, and they are shitty about it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Tell that fool 'trendlover' he can learn all about trayvon the drug dealer here. "damn where u at a nigga needa plant" http://www.wagist.com/2012/dan-linehan/was-trayvon-martin-a-drug-dealer
And when you fail personally, you find an other, to blame. Clinicians would look upon ET and chuckle.