Educating Needed on DA/SA Striker Guns

[omgwtfbbq]

I recently watched the video below which is about the Canik TP9V2, a very reasonably priced handgun imported by Century Arms and manufactured in Turkey.

This was the first time I've ever seen a handgun that is DA/SA and is also striker fired. My impression was "Why wouldn't you want a DA/SA striker gun?" Mainly because I've always thought of the main reason someone would opt for a striker fired handgun is that most of them are SA only and therefore have less take-up in the trigger and more consistent length and weight of pull.

So what am I missing? I am genuinely looking to fill the gap in my firearms knowledge here. I'm not making a judgment is being made about the quality or effectiveness of a DA/SA gun.

[pdoggeth]

I don't know much about the canik, or this model in particular. But... If it works like how I think it works -- that is, a full trigger pull will 1) "cock" the striker back and 2) release the striker (the second action which is what an SA striker gun like the Glock would do), then the added bonus of being a DA/SA striker gun is that it has second strike capabilities. Basically if you have a light primer striker or some other failure when pressing the trigger, instead of having to manually rack the slide to cock the gun again, you can just pull the trigger for second strike. This works well if you have an initial light primer striker, hopefully second time around will ignite it, and this is something your normal striker fired gun can't do at the moment. Of course, I have no idea if this is really what the canik v2 does (can't watch the video at work) -- it's just a guess based on my own assumptions of DA/SA striker fired.. So someone school me if I'm way off.

Of course, you could get all of this with a normal hammer fired DA/SA gun. I suppose having it be a striker fired means no exposed hammer and less prone to snagging.

Now, there was a version of the canik that was a single action only striker with a decocker. That I thought was ridiculous and totally unnecessary.

[Wes C Addle]

if the handgun is anything like the UTAG 15 (or whatever it's called), you can depend on one thing: that it will not be reliable. add to that that Century is involved (i know, i know, only an importer blah blah).

[Fenr1r]

if the handgun is anything like the UTAG 15 (or whatever it's called), you can depend on one thing: that it will not be reliable. add to that that Century is involved (i know, i know, only an importer blah blah).

Mine has been 100% reliable and I sold my VP9 because the TP9SA was a better shooter for me.