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@petermorwood - bad trigger disclipine alert! ;)
The lack of trigger-guards on gun-shape, electric-razor-shape and dust-buster-shape hand phasers - also Klingon and Romulan disruptors -
is a piece of iconic (but IMO bad) design dating back to TOS in the 1960s, when it probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
Real Weapons made without trigger guards are rare, often region-specific, and usually old: off the top of my head I can think of pistols from Scotland…
…from the Caucasus…
…from Japan…
…and a few other places like Northern India, but mostly a trigger guard is there to (surprise!) guard the trigger…
Some early revolvers didn’t have them either, with either spur triggers (it didn’t extend any further from between the spur until the action was cocked)…
…or folding triggers which only snapped into position when the action was cocked - in both cases it’s hard to accidentally pull something that isn’t there…
The “Fitzgerald Special” modification doesn’t count, since it starts with a standard revolver then snips bits off, rather than manufacturing it that way.
Besides his bad trigger discipline, Kirk in the GIF is just displaying lousy weapon safety practice, and no amount of explanation* about why he isn’t at risk of trimming his nose-hair down to the bone will change that.
*Unless it’s appeared in one of the series or the movies, such explanation is non-canon, even in an Official novel or comic: @dduane
and I were informed long ago that “it’s only canon if it appears/is
mentioned on-screen”.
I don’t know if this policy has changed.
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