Okay, I know a little about guns, I've grown up around them and know the basics. One thing I was always taught was to never dry fire a firearm no matter what, it can break the hammer.
Now I just got my first handgun, Springfield XD40.To field strip it requires that the hammer be disengaged to remove the slide and the only way to do that is to fire the thing, dry fire the thing because the hammer is not exposed. Am I risking breaking the hammer every time I field strip my gun or has technology changed this?
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