QUOTE (K1ll5w1tch @ Mar 25 2011, 06:54 PM)
Thats also a Hollywood thing most people trained in the use of firearms don't keep their finger on the trigger. They keep it above the trigger along the slide or body of the gun. Prevents AD's (Accidental discharges), and fright firing the gun before you can identify your target.
No, it's not a Hollywood thing. I know full well how a trained shooter holds a gun, thank you, I'm just saying that most people
aren't trained shooters. There are a startling number of photographs out there (often posted as Facebook updates, for instance) where someone's excited to go to the range or psyched about shooting a new gun or posing like a douchebag with guns and jewelry and cash, etc, etc...and their fingers are on the trigger, almost every time. There are videos you'll see of range tests on Youtube where even supposedly trained shooters -- excited about their new 1911 or nervous in front of the camera or distracted by trying to talk and shoot at the same time -- will have their fingers on the trigger. And even at most of the ranges I've been to, including during a concealed carry course
and during a police meet-and-greet citizen's academy trip to the range that I helped instruct,
most people put their finger on the trigger the first time they pick up a gun.
I'm not saying they're right. I know very well that they are wrong. I'm not saying they are trained professionals. I'm saying it happens, it's how most guns are built (so that it feels very natural to have your hand
just so), and I'm saying it's what the vast, overwhelming, majority of the population does when they've got a gun in their hand for the first time.
Again: I know it's not the right way to do it, but to most people it is very much the
normal way to do it. And, in circumstances of momentary idiocy (IE, when rolling a glitch in the heat of combat), I can see it being an appropriate error for even a trained shooter to make.