Aguila Blanca said:
That's a feature, not a bug.
I thank you for that information; I did not realize that the spring may have been bent intentionally. However, whether that's a feature or a bug seems something for the user to decide.
For me on that particular pistol, the kinked spring made the manual safety too easy to move, thereby increasing the risk of moving it unintentionally. I don't want that.
Further, inspection of the kinked spring revealed that the high spot of the kink was nicely polished from rubbing on the inside of the tube. Those spring are thin; not sure I want one high spot always rubbing to give me a predictable point of failure.
I notice that neither Wolff nor Brownells sells pre-bent plunger springs. Technical drawings for the spring do not show any kink; the kink doesn't seem part of Browning's design.
Aguila Blanca said:
the whole plunger and spring has a tendency to fly out
That's also true for the firing pin and its spring; yet I don't see anyone kinking that spring to "help". Same with nearly every spring in an AR-15. One simply controls the spring on disassembly.
JohnKSa said:
Modifications which alter the trigger travel or trigger reset distance can disable passive safeties which depend on trigger movement.
I have a friend who "pins" the triggers on his competition Glocks. This dramatically reduces the trigger travel/takeup but, as a consequence, can have the unwanted side-effect of disabling the drop safety
Again, I appreciate the info. I note that some after-market triggers tout reducing take-up; if I ever use one, I'll remember to check whether it, in its resting position, has already displaced the safety plunger.
I would think that such a modification would be easy to spot, with the trigger far back from its usual position. (Disabling the drop safety by, say, removing the plunger would also be easy to spot.) The implication on the video was that the gun's modified sear had caused the no-trigger-pull discharge.
I am somewhat surprised that a gun with a disabled drop safety is allowed in competitions these days; perhaps I should not be.