Trigger job & Concealed Carry!

[Slaytex]

If you carry a gun isn't reducing the trigger pull more of a liabilty if you ever had to use it? Example: If you went to court and the guys lawyer says you built a gun to make it easier to kill someone! I've just heard people mention this before.
I say this because I carry my XD and still want a trigger job, but I don't want to get myself in trouble. I might just have everything minus the trigger pull reduction.
Thanks.

[DigMe]

Massad Ayoob has, according to him, been an expert witness for these kinds of trials before and he claims these arguments are easily defeated. I can't remember the counter-arguments that he has used though.

(Other posters - Let's not make this into an argument about massad ayoob please.)

brad cook

[wJAKE19]

the lawyers will find any reason to try to attack you, if you shoot in compitions they will say you practice to kill people, if you use HP's they will say you use bullets made to kill, and so on....

if getting a trigger job makes you shoot better, go for it.

[ampleworks]

I look at it if a trigger job helps me shoot better and I end up putting the bullet(s) where I'm aiming...that is chest or head (whichever is easiest to hit) then that's one less son of a bitch to go into court and lie trying to screw me over.

Sad way to think of it but its the truth anymore.

[Slaytex]

What about using bullets with smiley faces on the front. Or ones that say: If you can read this your f*cked?
Hehe.

[mpholic]

Originally Posted by wJAKE19

if you shoot in compitions they will say you practice to kill people

Originally Posted by wJAKE19

if you use HP's they will say you use bullets made to kill

Isn't killing people (in the act of defending yourself) the whole idea behind carrying a defensive weapon?

Surely they don't expect you too shoot the gun out of the BG's hand John Wayne style do they? If he has threatend me with deadly force I can only assume he has every intention of ending my life and I will respond in like manner. The alternative...when he recovers he comes back to try again only this time he is not alone.

[wJAKE19]

what I am saying is when you shoot someone you are probly going to be sued, either by the person you shot, if he lives, or by his family. in todays age it does not matter if the shooting is totaly legal or not you'r going to get sued.

ofcourse if you are defending yourself shoot the hell out of the guy, I would not hesitate to do the same, and I carry HP's and I practice shooting bad guys, and I have extra things on my gun to make it shoot better.

but when you shoot someone and when you get sued the leech (lawyer) for the bad guy is going to say these things.

I'm on your side, I say shoot em all let god sort em out.

thats all I was saying, I was not trying to defend any bad guy. I should have explained better.

[manygunner]

Originally Posted by DigMe

Massad Ayoob has, according to him, been an expert witness for these kinds of trials before and he claims these arguments are easily defeated. I can't remember the counter-arguments that he has used though.

(Other posters - Let's not make this into an argument about massad ayoob please.)

brad cook

Massad also recommends the instalation of the New York trigger on your glock to make such accusations false. From what I remember from his lecture last summer he thinks lightening the trigger is a legal liability, although it can be defeated by arguing that it makes for more accurate shot placement thereby reducing danger to bystanders. I am not sure there is a good answer, if the prosecutor wants you, he will find an excuse to go after you.

[benzo_1978]

I had a trigger job done on my XD. The gunsmith I used asked me how light I wanted the trigger to be. I told him between 3-4 lbs. He quickly replied that 4 lbs was defensible in court. I wasn't really sure what he meant by that but he recommended the 4lbs over the 3lbs if this gun was going to be something other than a "range pistol" (plan to use mine for home protection). I live in Illinois by the way (not Chicago). That's my $.02.

Peace!

[Fly-Sig]

I think that any mods to guns are ok, but you may have to explain in court. Making the trigger lighter so that you are faster and more accurate is perfectly reasonable as long as you can articulate it as being done to improve your accuracy to avoid missing the BG and injuring an innocent bystander.

I think where a lighter trigger would be a problem is if you have some kind of AD/ND or other accidental shooting (maybe some kid finds/steals your gun and kills another kid). A lawyer might be able to convince a jury that the trigger was so light that it contributed to the accident and thus was a dangerously modified firearm.

I agree with the other posts that say you will be sued for anything they can think of. You used hollowpoints, you didn't use hollowpoints. You had a handheld flashlight, you had a weapon mounted flashlight, you had no flashlight at all. You practice regularly, you don't practice enough. Blah, blah, blah.

IMHO the key is to be sure that you understand the laws regarding the use of deadly force, and then if you are ever in a position to need to apply deadly force you will be prepared to explain how you feared for your life or feared serious bodily harm and used you firearm for self defense or defense of your family.

It seems very good judgement to be as prepared as possible. This means being proficient with your weapon and having your weapon configured to the optimal setup for you.