Necessity for a drop safety on the trigger

chandler5566 said:

...that is a life/death safety issue.

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Agreed.

wild cat mccane said:

Walther does make those adjustable/swapable trigger kit without the dingus though...

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I remember that. I was either the first, or one of the first on this forum to speak up against it on that thread a while back. I remember there were pages of discussion where I had to repeat myself there to people wanted to argue against this. I also remember a forum member stating something along the lines of "the trigger safety is nothing more than a gimmick".

Walther must have seen a reason why they never sold that trigger here in the US. The only "competition" triggers that they sold here, all had a drop safety on the trigger. The fact that they released that trigger for sale anywhere was amazing to me. I believe that trigger also bypassed the firing pin block by shortening pre-travel, which may have been even more dangerous than bypassing the drop safety. I wouldn't even load a pistol with that little margin for safety in regard to drop safety, or the possibility for parts breakages. The possibility of that pistol going full-auto also increases exponentially by bypassing the safeties that it did.

wild cat mccane said:

OG P99 commercial dropping the gun from the helicopter...

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The P99 has a drop safety on the trigger as well.

The point is that stopping the trigger bar from moving rearward is the main goal of the drop safety, whatever the method for achieving this. Whether it is the entire trigger that pivots to the rear (P99), or a lever in the trigger that does so (PPQ, PDP, Glock, etc.), it is there for a very important purpose.

Hopefully the video above does a good job of explaining why.

Even if it was available, my question is why would anyone who knew anything about how pistols and the parts inside them work, want that trigger on their pistol? I tried to tell people how much of a danger this was and received push back. People have no idea how easy it would be to get a pistol with this trigger installed to fire unintentionally, or go full-auto.

That was just one example though. I remember one member here making a steel trigger shoe and attaching it to the stock trigger bar with no drop safety. I remember another member taping the drop safety on the trigger to the rear. I remember members here removing the firing pin block from the slide. I remember a member here shortening pre-travel on the stock trigger to the point that both the drop safety and firing pin block were bypassed. Literally, every single time, I had people trying to argue that I was wrong to advise against this.

Walther didn't put any unnecessary parts on these pistols. All of them serve a purpose. Some people don't understand the purpose or function of some of the safety features on these pistols. That section of that video in the first post explains the purpose of the drop safety on the trigger.