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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Hi-Power mag safety
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.223625.14236@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 14:38:43 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: The Instrumentality
- Lines: 29
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Dec30.225158.15666@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
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- #The Browning standard with the molded grips seems like a good
- #starter gun and very good gun in general, but I have a concern:
- #
- #1) The standard has safety on one side only. What models have the
- #ambi safety, and how much extra work/cost is it to order an ambi
- #safety for the standard model?
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- I dunno about this--my HP came with the extended ambidextrous safety. It's
- an assembled in Portugal job, the box says, "Mark III S". It looks to me
- like you could turn the magazine release around pretty easily. (I haven't
- tried it, though.)
-
- #I was thinking that the most accident proof first pistol ought to have
- #a hammer drop safety, but how many decent guns have this?
-
- Yeah, that's a rarity in SA pistols. The HP does have a half-cock notch
- that _should_ catch the hammer if it slips (but I wouldn't stake my life on
- it). Interestingly enough, this model also has a firing pin block--and
- should thus be safe to carry with one in the chamber.
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