leadcounsel
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There are a variety of handgun safeties. Just to list a few, non-exhaustive list, what are the best safety designs on a handgun, and while we're at it, the worst designs?
This could include the inadvertent impact on the gun due to the design.
There's the 1911 style, single action, cock and lock, grip safety, offering a smooth SA trigger. This style requires a downward sweep of the thumb to disengage.
There's the Glock style internal blocking mechanisms and trigger safety, which has been copied by a few manufactures.
Springfield XD incorporated the grip safety along with Glock style blocking and trigger mechanisms.
There are transfer bars, such as seen in revolvers.
There are the Beretta style decocker safety which rotates the firing pin up and away.
Tanfoglio decocker withdraws the firing pin.
Of course, Browning has a slide/hammer lock system AND a magazine disconnect.
The SW steel frame pistols have a design that blocks the firing pin and also a mag disconnect.
HK designs have both cock and lock, and decocker.
Sig offers a decocker.
CZ offers either a decocker or cock and lock, and on the P07 the user can switch these out.
Some guns offer subtle loaded chamber indicators and some offer obvious loaded chamber indicators.
There are certainly dozens of other designs. What do you like and dislike?
IF you were building a gun from scratch, what features would you incorporate in the design of YOUR new pistol?
This could include the inadvertent impact on the gun due to the design.
There's the 1911 style, single action, cock and lock, grip safety, offering a smooth SA trigger. This style requires a downward sweep of the thumb to disengage.
There's the Glock style internal blocking mechanisms and trigger safety, which has been copied by a few manufactures.
Springfield XD incorporated the grip safety along with Glock style blocking and trigger mechanisms.
There are transfer bars, such as seen in revolvers.
There are the Beretta style decocker safety which rotates the firing pin up and away.
Tanfoglio decocker withdraws the firing pin.
Of course, Browning has a slide/hammer lock system AND a magazine disconnect.
The SW steel frame pistols have a design that blocks the firing pin and also a mag disconnect.
HK designs have both cock and lock, and decocker.
Sig offers a decocker.
CZ offers either a decocker or cock and lock, and on the P07 the user can switch these out.
Some guns offer subtle loaded chamber indicators and some offer obvious loaded chamber indicators.
There are certainly dozens of other designs. What do you like and dislike?
IF you were building a gun from scratch, what features would you incorporate in the design of YOUR new pistol?