Crime is Slate’s crime blog. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @slatecrime. I write a lot about “accidental” child shooting deaths—the stories of children who kill themselves or other kids ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Glock’s trigger combines the two aspects and increases the safety of the design. The striker is partially cocked via the first few millimeters of rearward movement of ...

While many handguns have much heavier trigger pulls, it’s clear that others have precisely the same trigger pull weight as a Glock, and have for decades. It seems likely that the “light trigger pull” ...

As gun owners, we know it is our responsibility to keep our guns safe and secure. There are many different ways to do this, and they can be as elaborate as building an actual vault in your home to as ...