A North Korean Delegate on Iran’s 2023 Defense Industry Day events engaging in very unsafe practices with a PC-09 (Iranian copy of the SIG-Sauer P226 apparently renamed as DIO Ager) with golden slide

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drummagqbblsw@reddit

Yes the North Koreans think revolver-based roulette does not fit the great Juche so they improve it to use self-loading pistols

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Klutz1907@reddit

Banger watch though, anyone able to ID it/has a higher res image?

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grumpykraut@reddit

Case in point: In a country like North Korea it takes a special kind of person to rise to high military honors.

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Presumably one of the uses for a North Korean general's sidearm is to avoid torture, imprisonment and a painful death at the hands of the secret police should you displease lil Kim. Got to see how the weapon would handle in such a situation.

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FaceJP24@reddit

I feel like it's almost a mathematical certainty that military-issued sidearms are used more for "self-inflicted casualties" across the world than they are for actual combat/self-defense.

Especially now in the world of drone warfare where it's hard to get medical treatment from your side or the enemy.

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davin_bacon@reddit

Reminds me of the Turkish anti suicide trigger guards, on their g3's.

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TobiasReiper47ICA@reddit

Wait, what did they do?

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QwerYTWasntTaken@reddit

They made trigger guards that make it harder to pull the trigger when the gun is facing back at you.

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zeocrash@reddit

Which is why it's important to properly test these things before buying.

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davin_bacon@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenWeapons/s/Z4hYPw1MfE

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RamTank@reddit

Pistols were important military weapons...up to like the late 1800s.

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Revolutionary-Wash88@reddit

I can't tell if this statement confirms or denies the previous theory

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PsychoTexan@reddit

Sometimes in WWI as well. Also tunnel rats in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.

So basically either before the advent of semi/fully auto longarms/smgs or in niche ultra confined spaces.

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Username_St0len@reddit

huh, that was the exact purpose of the P226 in the light novel turned anime 86

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rmfox0726@reddit

Agreed, that’s his contingency plan!

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Natural_Youth_5941@reddit

Unsafe practices is doing a lot of heavy lifting when you’re essentially flagging the whole room with the hammer down

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MajorJefferson@reddit

You ever been to such an event? All guns are checked and cannot fire because they remove or change the firing pins... You cannot physically have a gunshow without flagging people all over the place. There are lots of safety standards tho.

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srivatsa_74@reddit

Still bad form though, isn't treating every gun like it's loaded a cardinal rule of gun safety?

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MajorJefferson@reddit

If you cannot be trusted to enforce enough other safety rules for these events you cannot have an event. Its literally impossible. How would you do that? Have a single line of guns so nobody can be downrange? How long would that line be? How many miles of open, controlled ground behind the line?

See how this gets impossible in an instant?

There are more than enough rules to make it safe, they just need to be followed and enforced.

You cannot compare your weekend rangeday with your buddies with an event with thousands of visitors and more importantly customers.

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Activision19@reddit

Ive been to a gunshow where someone picked up what turned out to be a loaded gun off a vendors table and shot a hole in the wall. Luckily nobody got shot, but each show has very different safety standards. After that incident that show now requires the vendors to open the bolt and put a zip tie through the ejection port on each gun they have on their table.

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MajorJefferson@reddit

Was this in the US? In Germany on the IWA for example they need to have filled down pins so this could never happen. Pretty sure they just didn't enforce the rules at that show and thats why it happened. The issue is probably also that in America gun shows are used for trading more often than not, which wouldnt go well with the filled down firing pins haha

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