I like "push back" SVPP. It makes one think about their convictions and decisions. Just because we haven't heard thru the grapevine of someone going down the legal road of firearms modifications after a use of force situation doesn't mean it hasn't happened. It just means we haven't heard about it....yet. Certainly you are aware of the fact you WILL lose your firearm after being involved in a shooting. Not much to worry about if you were carrying a stock Glock, but do you want to lose your $3500 dollar custom gun? Depending on where the case goes and the prosecutors ambition in the case, the firearm will undergo forensic examination. We have seen this in the Baldwin case in New Mexico. They went thru that pistol so much so that it was rendered destroyed afterwards. So much for getting the pistol back.
Remember too that what whatever you have done to your firearm will be discovered and brought up in open court. The hope of the prosecution is to establish that if you have altered your firearm you must be some kind of a nut job just waiting for the right time to shoot someone and God Forbid it was an innocent person or child. Also open to inspection will be your firearms training, including decision making scenarios and qualification scores, but I digress. This is a discussion about mods to a carry gun.
Simply put after all my time in law enforcement if I decide to carry a firearm I don't want to have to contend with anyone making a claim that I altered my firearm to make it easier to shoot which is why people usually modify their firearms is it not? I don't want to have to explain to a group of 12 people who no doubt know little to nothing about firearms, why I altered my handgun from factory stock configuration. Clearly I have no burning desire to be a courtroom Beta Tester in this regard. If I have any say at all in my case, I want it centered on the actions I took and my reasoning for doing what I did, not on any modifications I made to my firearm.
If others see it differently that's fine with me. If you don't care about losing your $3K Staccato to an evidence locker and mechanical inspection that's fine too. I just see things differently than you do. But if your firearm has been modified in any way you have just given the prosecution or plaintiff a lot more "ammunition" to work with. A jury is a funny animal to figure out.
Rick H.