All of my carry guns are either GLOCKs or 1911s at this point, but it’s typically a GLOCK that I have in my holster.

 

Striker fired/no manual safety for me. Been ccw’ing my G43 for a year and a half, and a G19 for a decade prior.

 

Most of my retirement CCW weapons are the same as those I carried off-duty, and on-duty, for many years ... meaning S&W 3rd gen traditional DA (DA/SA). This is even though I've been a 1911 owner and user for more years.

Sure, I still have a couple Glocks and a couple M&P's, and those have seen many years and thousands of rounds of range work, training & quals, so they're quite familiar to me.

I just happen to find the initial DA first shot, and all subsequent shots being SA, to be very familiar and convenient for handling and running the guns hard under demanding conditions. (I still remain a confirmed 1911 guy, though, for the balance and predictable trigger press. )

Oh yeah, in deference to the policy and training of my former agency, I still carry my S&W 3rd gen's in Off-Safe/Ready-to-Fire condition.

 

There are two ways to interpret the question. The guns I usually prefer are striker fired, but not because they are striker fired. I would prefer all of my pistols to be DA-SA with decocker only.

 

If the interpretation of the OP's question were to be read in a generous manner, meaning to extend DAO to any handgun ... then yes, my most commonly carried retirement weapons are DAO, but they're J-frames (and the original LCP DAO, when they fit better).

Since he included striker-fired, and talked about manual safeties, it's apparent he meant to limit his poll to semiauto pistols, though.

 

I've carried concealed for many years and I know what I like and I know what I don't like. I like DA revolvers and SA semi-autos that can be carried cocked and locked and I've come to like Glocks better than any other striker fired pistol and now that I've learned how to master the trigger I like it just as well and can shoot it just as well as a cocked and locked SA.

What I don't like is any DA/SA guns or striker fired guns with a thumb safety or Glocks with a modified trigger or any striker fire gun with a "better" or different trigger pull than a Glock. For example, I don't like the trigger pull of the Sig P365 but I like the trigger pull of the Hellcat because it's more like the Glock. I also don't really like the trigger on the S&W shield but I think i could get use to it after I had shot one enough.

I have shot a 40 caliber Shield and other than the trigger I like it better and it's a nicer size for concealed carry than a G27 which is too thick and chunky for IWB carry and the gen 5's are even worse.

 

When I started my LE career back in 1989, I was using SIGs with DA/SA systems. In 2005, I sold off the last of my SIGs and switched over to the Glock 19. It's been striker fired pistols since then. I do still have a J frame for my "I'm not carrying a gun" gun needs - holdover from my LEO BUG days.

 

I'm just used to a lifetime of DA/SA and have no issues with it. Ideally, it would be striker fired with a manual safety, but I don't trust the existing technology of ms for strikers - "it jest ain't natcheral is all."

 

The P99 (and SW99) pistols in the original configuration sear action (what Walther came to call Anti-Stress) offered an excellent striker-fired pistol that had DA/SA modes. It was a real sleeper. I have a couple of them, and I came to really appreciate them (SW9940 & SW999C) when I was carrying an issued SW9940, and after going through the armorer class for them 3 times. Never cared for the later configurations (Quick-Action, or S&W's slightly different 990L version). I thought the DA/SA capable AS sear action was really handy. The SA trigger recovery rivaled that of S&W's 3rd gen, and the later developed SIG SRT.

 

Where is the option for all of the above?
G19,G26,G30SF
CZ PCR
Kimber CDP PRO II
S&W 442

Which of those I "prefer" depends on where I am carrying and what I have to wear.

 

90 percent I carry 1 of my Glocks, I also like carrying my Kimber 1911.

 

I voted "striker fired with a manual safety" because I'd prefer to carry my Shield Plus which is the optional manual safety version. However, it's too big for me to pocket carry.

What I usually carry is my BG .380 (the last version) which is a semi-auto hammer-fired DAO pistol, because it's small enough to fit in some of my pockets. I might eventually transition to my LCP Max but I'm not close to being there yet.

 

I honestly don’t care much, but my carry guns tend to be striker fired with no manual safety. My HD pistol is DA/SA. Just happened to work out that way because I really like that particular pistol.

Give me any of them and I’ll make it work.

 

I honestly don’t care much, but my carry guns tend to be striker fired with no manual safety. My HD pistol is DA/SA. Just happened to work out that way because I really like that particular pistol.

Give me any of them and I’ll make it work.

Yep, when it comes to having to use gear, training can mitigate a lot of gear-centric issues.

 

Glock 26 Gen 4.

 

I've never seen the acronym LEM before.

So, I want that one. Hope it's cool.

 

Law Enforcement Module for the old USP's. I never cared for them (LEM modules), myself, after trying one belonging to another agency's instructor. I knew a senior armorer (for HK USP), firearms instructor and swat guy for his agency who had surprising trouble meeting qualification for a firearms instructor update class using his recently converted USP45 (from DA/SA to LEM) for the class. He said the first thing he was doing was restoring it to DA/SA when he went home, and he had to borrow a DA/SA S&W (4506) in order to pass the qual courses on the last day. He wasn't the only experienced firearms instructor who had some surprising trouble passing all the quals courses, though. I remember at least one guy who completely failed to pass the class due to not being able to pass the scored qual courses-of-fire needed to pass the update class and get a certificate of completion. There may have been a couple more, as I remember there were a couple more guys trying to reshoot and pass when I left. Weird.

Might've just been some Bermuda Triangle effect for HK USP's for that class, though ... as pone of the guys shooting next to me for one of the lines, on one of the mornings, was having light strike troubles with his USP throughout the morning. (I didn't ask the action variant he was using, and I can't remember the caliber.) He did get some opportunity to practice some clearance drills during the courses that morning, though. He said he was going to spend his lunch break stripping down his USP (he was also an agency armorer for whatever agency he worked) to identify and resolve the issue. He must've found and corrected whatever was wrong, as his gun ran normally after we returned from lunch break.

 

My answer isn't crisp. I voted for manual safety, striker fired because for small carry I like my 365 with a manual safety. Having said that, I first purchased a 365 without the manual safety, still have it, and am comfortable with it. If I carry larger guns (winter time) they don't have manual safeties. So I guess my answer is driven by whether it is pocket carried/small carried or not, and if so I do choose the manual safety version of the two 365s that I have. But it is a slight preference, not a driving need.

 

I want nothing to do with a DA or DA/SA. I used to carry a PPKs but other than a full size 1911 it was the only thing that wasn't too dangerous to carry until 2 years ago. DA was hard, but once it kicked into SA it was better, but the blowback was harsh.

I've become fond of my striker fired Glocks. The idea of turning off a manual safety with SA or striker in an adrenaline pumped SD situation would be slower without a ton of practice. While I've had a 1911 for decades, the idea of carrying cocked and locked just never grew on me. I'm pretty happy with my 43x and 48. Both are accurate enough and can be easily concealed and carried.

 

I want nothing to do with a DA or DA/SA. I used to carry a PPKs but other than a full size 1911 it was the only thing that wasn't too dangerous to carry until 2 years ago. DA was hard, but once it kicked into SA it was better, but the blowback was harsh.

I've become fond of my striker fired Glocks. The idea of turning off a manual safety with SA or striker in an adrenaline pumped SD situation would be slower without a ton of practice. While I've had a 1911 for decades, the idea of carrying cocked and locked just never grew on me. I'm pretty happy with my 43x and 48. Both are accurate enough and can be easily concealed and carried.

Well, yes, some of the little blowback pistols, even in .380, can be 'harsher' in their recoil effect than in Short Recoil, Browning Tilting Barrel System pistols chambered in the same caliber.

Indeed, it usually does require sufficient training exposure and recurrent proper practice to ingrain manipulations of such features so they can be utilized in 'adrenaline pumped' situations. Not for everyone, understandably. Especially if they aren't required to use them for work (and then you';d hope the training and recurrent practice would be provided and encouraged by the employer ).

I didn't come to appreciate DA/SA until required to do so for work, and I was already a DA revolver and 1911 (SA) guy for some years. It was pretty much forced upon me.

 

I have gone through different preferences over the years:
1. Single Action (Browning Hi Power)
2. Striker (Glock, Springfield XD)
3. Single Action (CZ 75B, CZ 75B SA, CZ 85 Combat SA converted, Browning Hi Power)
4. Double Action / Single Action w / decocker only (CZ P09, CZ P07, CZ SDP 2, CZ SP01 Tactical)

I'm sticking with number 4 - no safety to swipe off / or get knocked off, a slightly heavy / deliberate first trigger pull, and smooth transition between double action and single action.

 

I voted LEM although I still carry my Gen3 Glock 26 very regularly. I just feel the LEM system is one of the safest systems out there carried with a round in the chamber on a pistol with no safety.

 

Love my Glocks. Carry PX4CC DA/SA because it's like my 19, but half the recoil turned into rotational energy, and more accurate, with a long light DA pull (it's hard to call back bullets; one should be sure before round one leaves) and 15 more SA behind it with short reset and beautiful trigger.

late edit: The poll question is misleading in its simplicity. "SAO" -- probably 1911-style, but maybe a new 92XI? DA/SA like a 92, or a Bersa? Is DAO your revolver, or your Pico?

 

Striker fired, no manual safety.

 

Striker fire for me. No safety on my Hellcat

 

I grew up DA/SA with a Sig P226, then an M9 as an issued sidearm. Got a G34 a few years ago for IDPA, and found the transition easy. Moving to a Shadow Systems MR920 this month

 

I grew up DA/SA with a Sig P226

My first carry gun was a W. German marked P226 - great gun.

 

After carrying Glocks for almost 30 years, of course I'm going with Striker-fired.

Does this guy look like he needs a manual safety?

 

Most striker fired guns are SOA, Glock being an exception.

 

Same question posed at SIGTalk...

 

Not unexpected. However, as SIG continues down the same path as S&W in discontinuing more of their traditional DA guns in favor of expanding their striker-fired lines, it will slowly shift such polls. Sure, there will remain a core element of owners/users who continue to favor the TDA guns (like me with my S&W 3rd gen's), but the growing group of younger shooters who never learned to shoot the older SIG's will slowly overtake the ones who learned to shoot on the TDA SIG's. Time marches on.

 

I carry AIWB so I prefer pistols like my Cajunized DA/SA CZ's (P-O1 Omega and P-O7) pistols. I currently have just one striker fired pistol, a P365 XL upper and a MS FCU waiting on the Wilson Combat MACRO grip modules to drop in July. My striker fired pistols have to have either a manual thumb safety or if a Glock or Shadow Systems a SCD installed on them.