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**44 AMP** · February 11, 2014, 08:25 PM

I did get a kick out of his calling the slide stop reassembly sequence a "design flaw".

A design flaw is when, assembled run as designed, the mechanism fails to operate properly, or damages itself during operation.

Something that isn't what you think it ought to be isn't a design flaw, its an opinion.

There are lots of things I consider less than optimal, or even downright stupid. And I am often at a lack when it comes to understanding why the designers did it that way. But the fact that it IS done that way (no matter what "it" is) means they intended to do it that way. That's not a flaw.

February 11, 2014, 08:25 PM	#31
44 AMP Staff Join Date: March 11, 2006 Location: Upper US Posts: 28,820	I did get a kick out of his calling the slide stop reassembly sequence a "design flaw". A design flaw is when, assembled run as designed, the mechanism fails to operate properly, or damages itself during operation. Something that isn't what you think it ought to be isn't a design flaw, its an opinion. There are lots of things I consider less than optimal, or even downright stupid. And I am often at a lack when it comes to understanding why the designers did it that way. But the fact that it IS done that way (no matter what "it" is) means they intended to do it that way. That's not a flaw. __________________ All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.