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Your mind will lock up a bit, will not allow you to think that extra step of pulling the safety down before you need to use it to defend yourself. so as most law enforcement agencies or all that i'm aware of, they don't have an exterior safety on your firearm, which means there's no extra button to push. the only natural safety that you would have is an extended trigger pull. that means the trigger is not, what people sometimes call a hair trigger, it's an extended trigger pull to where it can't be just accidently squeezed and have the firearm go off. >> what were the characteristics of the ca...

Purchase for personal safety. >> our discussion went to the type of firearm to where you're, ironically enough we had this discussion, if you're in a tussle and you need to utilize a firearm and there's a situation that's so stressful that you can't think to remove one or two exterior safeties and you need to protect yourself and you need to do it right now, the cal tech was the type of weapon that was good for him. >> i'm not supposed to ask you what weapon you carry for work, so i won't. but can i ask you whether or not it has an external safety. >> every law enforcement job i have ever had,...

Both functions are done in a double action capacity with those handguns. >> and as a cal tech 9 the type of firearm where it can only be double action. >> it makes the extra trigger squeeze even harder and it's more of a firm squeeze, making it less likely to go off by accident. >> and is that one of the safety features of that gun. >> it's its greatest safety feature. >> thank you. >> any cross? >> good morning, mr. osterman. >> good morning, sir. >> i think we briefly talked about the book last time, you wrote a book along with your wife. >> that's correct. >> how many books have been sold s...

Anderson. i've seen all the photographs in this case, but i had not seen these before. these were photographs of the body of trayvon martin laying on the ground. i don't care who you are, they have a strong impact to see a young person you know lying lifeless on the ground. so clearly it would impact the jurors and it impacted everyone else. we saw the gun that george zimmerman used, that's the cal tech 9. and then we saw the sweatshirt, very powerful. that's not a piece of evidence to the family, it's an icon. it represents the racial profiling they believe george zimmerman is guilty of. >> t...

That happened today from martin savidge who joins us now. what new evidence did we hear today in the courtroom? >> reporter: it was photographs, anderson. i've seen all the photographs in this case, but i had not seen these before. these were photographs of the body of trayvon martin laying on the ground. i don't care who you are, they have a strong impact to see a young person you know lying lifeless on the ground. so clearly it would impact the jurors and it impacted everyone else. we saw the gun that george zimmerman used, that's the cal tech 9. and then we saw the sweatshirt, very powerful...