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From: boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: magazine safetys
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Date: 6 Jun 91 14:59:20 GMT
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In article <35246@mimsy.umd.edu>, snitor!petert@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Toth) writes:
#In article <35140@mimsy.umd.edu>, jalden@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joshua M. Alden) writes:
##    I would like it to have the following characteristics:
##[...]
##    I've been looking around, and I haven't found a firearm which meets
##all these criteria.  I thought I'd found it in the Colt Officer's .45,
##but that's got a magazine-drop safety.  Anyone know of a firearm which
##fits all or most of my criteria, or am I dreaming?
#
#Does disabling/removing the magazine-drop safety void the warranty ?
#If not, ...

Yes it would, and you would probably have to do it yourself (since no 
gunsmith would want to accept liability).

#
#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 ?

I am unsure if the original poster really meant "hammer dropping", but the 
purpose for a magazine safety (that which blocks the trigger when the 
magazine is ejected) is to allow for an easy way to make the gun "safe".  
That is, you can deactivate your weapon by taking out the magazine.  Personally,
I think it is a bit stupid to make the action of a weapon dependent upon 
a removable part that get's a lot of abuse.  It is a political invention, just
as so many other idiotic gun designs . . . .

The above is IMHO.  Direct flames elsewhere.
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