NYPD Will Transition Away From the 12-Pound Trigger Duty Guns They’ve Been Using for a Century

The New York Police Department, in its infinite wisdom, has issued the boys in blue GLOCK, SIG and other handguns with a 12-pound trigger pull. They’ve actually been doing that for the last century or so. The “reasoning” is that making the trigger pull so heavy cuts down on negligent discharges.

Apparently adequately training the boys in blue never occurred to anyone at the NYPD.

The problem with a 12-pound trigger, of course, is it also makes shooting accurately much more difficult.

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