Loaded chamber indicator
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What? Why would you need to check? You don't know when you have a loaded chamber? The guns in my house that are not in the safe or on me are always 1 up ready to go.
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If you don't know if your gun is not loaded or not, you shouldn't have it.
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One of the golden rules of firearms, guns are ALWAYS loaded, even if they aren't.
And most never check because the only time they don't have one in the chamber is during cleaning.
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Well I hate the direction this is turning but I'm saying if you guys aren't checking your piece when you pick it up you are FOS, or very unsafe. Of course it's loaded until known otherwise. Which is the nature of the damn question. I swear this is like a bunch of asperger kids!
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You like to know 100%. Nothing wrong with that. I'm curious though. What exactly are you trying to do to help you at night?
That's what I would think he is doing. Just a very quick verification with touch.
To me the LCI is not very useful. There is no realistic scenario for me where checking "the old fashioned way" won't work better. I resent the useless part in the middle of everything adding one more thing that can go wrong and more nooks and crannies to clean. I particularly dislike the sharp notch in the barrel hood this design requires.
The xds is a very nice gun (either caliber) but it isn't perfect. The other things less than perfect to my taste are the waffle grip pattern, the complexity of the design (it's not terrible, but Glocks are a fair bit simpler), and I wish the grip was about 1/4 inch shorter, even if it costs a magazine round.
The xds is a very nice gun (either caliber) but it isn't perfect. The other things less than perfect to my taste are the waffle grip pattern, the complexity of the design (it's not terrible, but Glocks are a fair bit simpler), and I wish the grip was about 1/4 inch shorter, even if it costs a magazine round.
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^^ This, in spades. I unload it to clean it. When I'm done, I load one in the mag, chamber it, remove the mag - if it is empty, I know the gun is now loaded - then load 5 to fill the mag. I then put it in the holster where it will be on my person all day, every day, except when I'm in bed or in the shower, and then it is beside me, or when I'm in a posted location, and then it is in my car safe. It is never under anyone else's control, and it won't unload itself, so why do I need to check?
And to the OP, making disparaging comments about the posters responding to your thread is pretty bad form. I don't see any of the folks who disagree with you saying such things about you, why do you feel the need to do so toward them?
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Sure, and I treat it the same as cleaning. For sure, in this situation the LCI doesn't tell you anything useful.
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