Learned of Fort-12 pistol. Hear anything about it?

Is it just me, or does one of the pics on Wikipedia look like the slide-mounted safety must be flipped down for FIRE? Weird and awkward. :confused:

I'm guessing it's not imported because there's not a very strong market in the U.S. for DA/SA double-stack all-metal blowback .380 pistols. The Beretta 84FS is only imported sparingly, the Zenith (Girsan) MC14 is so uncommon that most gun hobbyists don't even know what it is, and the CZ 83 and Browning BDA 380 are off the market.
 
The safety looks like down to fire like the Makarov. Down for fire is better and less awkward than up. It is similar to a 1911 and a natural movement unlike the up for fire. If it is a decocker/safety, just decock and then carry safety off.
 
EIGHTYDUECE said:
Down for fire is better and less awkward than up. It is similar to a 1911 and a natural movement unlike the up for fire.
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Arguably true, but a slide-mounted safety is going to snag your thumb on firing if you attempt to "ride" the lever 1911-style. I presume this is why almost all slide-mounted safeties operate up for FIRE. I don't like the down-for-FIRE Mak safety either.

However, given where this pistol is made and used, designing it with the same manual-of-arms as the Makarov was probably done deliberately for ease of retraining.
EIGHTYDUECE said:
If it is a decocker/safety, just decock and then carry safety off.
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True, but it would be good to know whether the pistol has any passive safety devices to make it more drop-safe when carried like this.
 
Arguably true, but a slide-mounted safety is going to snag your thumb on firing if you attempt to "ride" the lever 1911-style. I presume this is why almost all slide-mounted safeties operate up for FIRE. I don't like the down-for-FIRE Mak safety either.
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I meant the downward motion like the 1911. Obviously one would not thumb ride a slide mounted safety. When the Beretta and S&W autos started hitting the police department armories, the major complaint was that the safety went up for fire rather than the more easier down for fire on the draw from a holster. I agree with the passive safety.
 
Arguably true, but a slide-mounted safety is going to snag your thumb on firing if you attempt to "ride" the lever 1911-style.
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Why would you ride a slide-mounted safety? That seems awkward and painful as the slide goes through it's motions.

As mentioned, the down-for-fire arrangement is the same as a Makarov, and as far as I can tell, no one (including my self) has ever had a problem with that.
 
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