what are the parts of a lightning rod and their functions?
In my experience, you are only suicidal if you think about suicide in terms of YOURSELF. You can think about suicide in general without being suicidal. And yes, if you are having symptoms of depression, which can hurt not only mentally but physically - if you are having trouble getting out of bed, not eating or eating too much, not bothering to shower, not showing interest in your normal activities - then you most likely will have a hunch that you are depressed before you are actually diagnosed.
The striker type of firing mechanism is cheaper to make, and the striker has become popular with many people. I have shot and owned many handguns over the years. In the last couple years I have started weeding out all my striker fired guns in favor of the da/sa, de-cock/safety, hammer fired guns. I have 1 striker left, a Taurus Mil Pro. It will go this year. I believe the striker caught on with the explosion of the Glock guns. Everyone has climbed onto the bandwagon including FN and Sig. Nearly everyone makes a poly frame, striker fired, either DAO or SAO gun. I don't like them.
Striker-fire is a simpler design with fewer parts in the frame. A lot of shooters aren't too interested in having a hammer-style design since the Glock invasion. A hammer is more likely to snag on clothing when drawn, too.
Consumer demand. Consumers began moving away from manual transmissions in their cars and went to automatics, manufacturers followed suit and made more automatics. Consumer demand is moving towards striker fired guns it seems lately, so gun makers are making what their buyers are buying. It's a pretty simple formula. Gun makers are still making hammer fired guns, but what you see more of is striker fired.
It all goes back to Glock and has absolutely nothing to do with safety. It is a cheapness to manufacture issue You have to remeber the secret to Glock's success has little to do with a superior gun and everything to do with a superior marketing scheme. they took their $100 doallar to make guns and basically gave them to police agencies which drove up demand from the civilian market. They are still $100 guns and still no safer than any other striker fired gun. Some ranges here banned striker fired guns in the 80's as being inherently unsafe.from a drop safe point of view
