I had a Bersa 380 with a slide mounted safety. Several failures to fire per box of
ammo were traced to the safety partially engaging from the force of the slide blowing back. The safety lever would rotate down a little bit,
and the next trigger pull, the slightly rotated trigger block would impede the hammer
just enough to disallow primer ignition.
The safety would get whacked back in to safe
position- so this was difficult to diagnose.
I finally caught it misbehaving. Two smiths
tried to stop this from happening but were unsuccessful. Since then I have avoided handguns with slide mounted safeties- once bitten, twice shy... Have any of you had similar probs with this kind of safety design?
ammo were traced to the safety partially engaging from the force of the slide blowing back. The safety lever would rotate down a little bit,
and the next trigger pull, the slightly rotated trigger block would impede the hammer
just enough to disallow primer ignition.
The safety would get whacked back in to safe
position- so this was difficult to diagnose.
I finally caught it misbehaving. Two smiths
tried to stop this from happening but were unsuccessful. Since then I have avoided handguns with slide mounted safeties- once bitten, twice shy... Have any of you had similar probs with this kind of safety design?