Is there actually anything "incorrect" per se with using a hi point as your ccw?

Is there actually anything "incorrect" per se with using a hi point as your ccw?

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Nope

Define 'correct' please.

No

it works but i think for like a extra 100$ you could get a gun more designed for ccw.

yes, they actually suck
people fell for the reliability meme

Cops will search your asscrack with a microscope even if you have a permit because it looks like you're carrying a burner to toss in a ditch after shooting someone

unless you're dirt poor i'd get something else, they're too bulky for me anyways

Carried a hipoint C9 when I was poor. If it's all you got, it's better than nothing.

how'd you transcend serfdom?

If you're a comical poorfag, then sure, but you get what you pay for

something with better ergo more designed for ccw will serve you way better over time

Looks like you fell for the contrarian meme

by using his hipoint effectively

it means you have the big gay

If you can successfully stash a boat anchor in your shorts, you could possibly get away with CC a HiPoint.

Exactly.

>zamak is reliable! don't call it pot metal!

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The zamak is for slide mass, the pressure critical components are all made of steel.

The enormous slide mass that allows it to operate safely makes it difficult to properly conceal without printing.
The safety is kind of rickety and only blocks the trigger, which is SA/striker fire. This means you're either carrying cocked and locked, but have to trust the less than perfect safety which you must also disengage before firing or you have to carry with an empty chamber. Or be an absolute madman and carry chambered safety off, but that's about as smart as mixing sleeping pills with laxatives.

Current doctrine for carry guns leans towards either DAO, or grip safety, or trigger safety with firing pin safety for carry pistols. Such guns aren't quite as cheap as a Hi-Point, but can be had for ~$50 more and are also much smaller. That said, if a Hi-Point is what you've got and you can't get anything else, yes you can carry it.

It's a blowback operated weapon, so the slide is actually being forced back under quite a lot of pressure exerted on it. It usually holds up fine because it's very thick despite being Zamak, but it's still a pretty flimsy material and can break in some freak occurrence.

>DAO
why DAO over DA/SA?

Laughed so hard a spit a lil. Thanks for that

A number of reasons.
It avoids the DA to SA hop, which is where you train on the DA/SA in mostly SA mode so under stress your first shot goes wild and the rest are on target or your first hits but the rest are all over the place. If you train on that gun in DA or SA from start to finish, there is only one trigger pull it can possibly have from the first to the last shot. It is a non-insignificant reason why striker fired guns are so popular.
DAO is also safer from people getting an adrenaline surge and accidentally popping off a shot after the action or too soon in advance. This can factor into the legal aspects of a shoot, because if the gun has an SA pull a particularly slimy lawyer can try to claim that the person defending themselves cocked the gun and shot a perp by accident which moves it from self-defense to voluntary manslaughter.

Now with SA striker fired guns the doctrine there is hard holsters to protect the trigger, or a manual or grip safety in addition to a passive trigger safety. They can still run into that legal issue, but at least there is no DA/SA hop since they're always SA. Some, like Kahr are SA striker-fired but have an artificially longer/heavier trigger pull than necessary as a safety feature to kind of simulate a DAO (although they don't have a second strike capability).

Basically there are a lot of ways to help make a carry pistol a little extra safe and fool-proof if you have to use it quickly. The Hi-Point has pretty much none of them.

This is one of two pictures I've ever seen if a broken Hi-point. Do you have any idea how many exploded Glock and S&W pictures are out there?

buy a ruger lc9s for $100 more. otherwise its better than nothing

It's worth noting to get that to happen the guy had to throw it at a fucking rock as hard as he could at specifically the weakest point of the gun and then also shoot it. The chances of that happening in the wild are slim to none.

If that's what you got, and you've verified it goes bang, it'll work. But, depending on how much you worry about split times, for a bit more money, you can get something other than 9mm blowback.

Garand Thumb did not shoot his hipoint?

Shit, I wasn't even aware there were striker guns being made today without a firing pin safety. Is HiPoint the only one, or are there others?

Just, heavy, and ugly. And might give cops probable cause to search since its the official tool of gas station robberies.