Type III Safety Characteristics

[BrianQ]

usgicollector PM me and I'll tell you about it.

[INLAND44]

There you go...can't add to the discussion without saying everybody else is deficient in knowledge.

[phil441]

Yup, another bit of knowledge successfully kept secret. To what purpose I have to wonder.

[BrianQ]

I posted the answer but somebody got their feeling hurt so I changed the post. That's the reason.

[phil441]

I posted the answer but somebody got their feeling hurt so I changed the post. That's the reason.

Brian, I appreciate your response, but I now have to wonder about the reason for that person's response. I know that most of us try to protect information from the "humpers" out there, but until a secure system of information exchange is found do we have to resort to private e-mails and PM's? That spells death for forums.

Just a cheap opinion...

[Tired Retired]

The information does get out when it is offered up for any format for dissemination. As one example, there is nothing stopping a humper from joining the carbine club (under an assumed name) and investing the $300 to get all the newsletters. No doubt someone in California has a drop postoffice box in in Vegas to gain the information in the newsletter. As long as there is money to be made, everyone will have to weigh public knowledge vs control over the forgeries.

Not picking a side, just making an observation.

[phil441]

The information does get out when it is offered up for any format for dissemination. As one example, there is nothing stopping a humper from joining the carbine club (under an assumed name) and investing the $300 to get all the newsletters. No doubt someone in California has a drop postoffice box in in Vegas to gain the information in the newsletter. As long as there is money to be made, everyone will have to weigh public knowledge vs control over the forgeries.

Not picking a side, just making an observation.

I totally agree with you, TR, but where do we go from here?
It's just about taken all the fun out of it for me.

And, no, you're not in my will

Phil

[firstflabn]

The dilemma is that on the one hand nice guys want to help others who have an intense interest in the same subject, yet don't want to feel like a chump when the info gets misused. The internet has speeded up the info transfer astronomically. It is the Wild West as to applying the old intellectual property rules that developed slowly over centuries. To some whose research interest came along with the emergence of the internet, all info is free. Look at the Napsters. In the old days new info transferred by word of mouth, an occasional magazine article, and after years - or maybe a lifetime - an authoritative book. It's a new world and we'll thrash around in it, sometimes getting it right, sometimes not.

Thanks to all who strive to find that proper balance. And thanks for everyone's help with my funky modified push safety.

[BrianQ]

It has nothing to do with hiding something from "humpers". It doesn’t make fiscal sense for someone to turn a type II safety into a type III. In the post I edited I posted "Those that pay close attention to details can tell you there are variations of type II and type III safeties." So if someone wants to start some crap over that than fine I'll opt out of the conversation.