RE: I never use the safety
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when I carried as a security guard, we always had one in the chamber when holstered. No safety on the glock 17, from memory. The holster is the safety.
If it comes out, it's ready to dance.
Only time I drew on duty is forever etched in my memory. Multiple alarms so likely a genuine break-in at the bank (turned out to be a cleaner).
Running through a pitch black shopping centre at 3am; suddenly the roar of an engine and some headlights lit up only a few metres from me.
Almost put a hole in the grill of a kids coin-op Brum ride. Turns out they're left on overnight, along with their prox sensor which brings them to life when someone approaches.
It was out, aimed, and I was actively squeezing when I worked out what was going on.
I think the Glock has a decocking lever rather than a safety. My CZ P-09 has the same. Load and rack, then drop the lever which drops the hammer about half way. It's a double action trigger pull from there.
How long were you in security?
Ten years, give or take. Six in the patrol car, probably only 2 of those armed. Expensive to keep the firearm license, with requal shoots every 3 months.
(Cost more than registering my car.)
Not sure it made me any safer. If anything I figured I was finally worth attacking.
If a guy's waiting for me with a pipe, he's going to get himself a gun.
A long time really. 10 years.
A lot of time alone, thinking, in the middle of the night. I was a completely different person by the end of it.
In a good way you mean? (Better person). One of my mates was in Police security services, it did his head in.
Yeah, that covers a lot. They do a heap of speed camera stuff. I turned all that down, just private security. Mostly rattling doors on bakeries and schools in the middle of the night. Driving around, lost in thought.
I think I'm better for it.
Turned my head into a playground and thought through a lot of confusing stuff until it made sense. Personal, economic, spiritual, political.
Some of the magic is gone, but I'm a lot more confident in my conclusions.
It's good when a person's job also holds value from an emotional and spiritual sense in the rest of a person's life.