I wear prescription glasses. Do I need to wear safety glasses when firing a handgun?
I don’t see how I CAN wear safety glasses on top of my prescription glasses. Do I HAVE to get prescription safety glasses to shoot then?
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You should be fine.
Many glasses are made with high impact polymers these days that are stronger than safety glasses anyway. You just want to avoid direct exposure to flying debris.
Yes, I would highly recommend that you wear safety glasses… sure standard glass in glasses may be made of stronger materials BUT the frames are not.
I have but it’s not the best solution. I would strongly suggest you ask your ophthalmologist if they would consider the materials and design/coverage to be proper for safety. The other factor is how they sit on your face a lot of shooting glasses are set to fit differently so that your eyes get the maximum protection when you have the weapon and your head in a firing position. Just remember $2-300 for glasses is cheaper then even a emergency room visit for just checking them. Plus you don’t end up w/o your daily glasses if something does happen. I’ve seen with my own eyes that if you have any kind of catastrophic failure the glasses will likely be pitted so bad they are almost useless.
I agree with *10 minutes late* answer.
I have shot handguns for decades and found that if you are holding the handgun properly away from you prescription glasses work fine. I had an idiot play a nasty joke on me, he over maxed an old cap and ball revolver with a compressed double load of ffff g powder and handed it to me to shoot. It blew the top strap completely off and I had brass and steel flying every where. But my prescription glasses stopped one piece headed for the center of my eye shattering the glasses but remaining intact.
Made me a believer in eye protection.
I just wish I had worn hearing protection back then; I wouldn’t be wearing a hearing aid now if I had.
They do make safety glass to fit over prescription glasses but I find them bothersome.
some shooting ranges and class instructors require safety glasses when shooting, I however have been shooting rifles, handguns, bow and arrows and pellet guns from about the age of 8 or 9 (26 now) and I have NEVER had a eye injury and I only wear safty glasses when I have someone b!t(hing at me to put them on.
I did however have one time when I was using a sling shot to bounce shotgun primers off the cinderblock wall of my fathers basement and when the brass of one shot back it caught me right between the two front teeth (thank god I had braces at the time) it bent the wire to my braces into a “U” shape between the brackets and with out that wire I would have lost the two teeth it was going for.
yes, you can get safety glasses that fit over your prescription glasses, same as fitover sunglasses.
very good and safer then prescription glasses, and protects your expensive prescription glasses too.
It’s a matter of risk assessment and how comfortable you are with the risks involved. If your glasses are real glass, there’s the possibility of them shattering and glass penetrating your eye. Many glasses these days are made with polycarbonate lenses, and they are impact resistant, though they do scratch more easily.
Unless your glasses are of a goggle design, I suggest you wear the safety glasses. I’ve seen a casing get ejected and land inside the glasses. The girl end up with a burn scar right under her right eye.
you can get over shields for glasses but i would get perscrip saf-t glasses i use the you san get them in yellow also.