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From: maarrrk@gauss.ucsb.edu (Mark Erickson)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Magazine Safety
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Date: 6 Jun 91 03:41:11 GMT
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In article <35246@mimsy.umd.edu> snitor!petert@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Toth) writes:
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#Apropos: for the longest time i've been puzzled by magazine safeties.
#Can anyone explain what are they good for besides rendering the gun less
#than useless while reloading ?
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#Thanx
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#Peter Toth

	Picture this:  Joe Idiot (apologies to Joes out there) buys
	an autoloader.  Demonstrating it to a friend, he loads it up
	(round in the chamber).  he then takes the magazine out, 
	says, "It's unloaded now, see?" and proceeds to shoot himself
	with it.  Magazine safeties prevent this kind of behavior.
	I myself believe in Natural Selection, and hence am against
	magazine safeties :+)

--maarrrk

	p.s. S&W magazine safeties aren't too difficult to remove,
	and the removal can be reversed...