• FireTower@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      291·
      2 months ago

      To be fair to Malcom X this predated Jeff Cooper’s 4 rules of firearm safety, and was the general trend of the period.

        • SSTF@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          18·
          2 months ago

          Resting fingers on triggers was, like it or not, very common in the past. Only in the 1980s and going into the 1990s was there a concerted gun culture and military training culture change that made it something commonly actively called out.

    • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Idk about m1 carbines (just looked it up they don’t do the same) but m1 and m14 safetys were released inside the trigger guard

  • SSTF@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    The two 30 round mags from an M2 always jump out at me in this picture.