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From: optilink!cramer@uunet.UU.NET (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: Big bore carry guns (and Sig Sauer)
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Date: 7 Jun 91 03:12:53 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?

Unless the Colt Officer's is radically different from the other
Colt .45s, it does NOT have a magazine safety.

# Does disabling/removing the magazine-drop safety void the warranty ?
# If not, ...
# 
# 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 ?
# 
# Peter Toth

The reason for the magazine safety is to make it impossible to fire
the gun when the magazine is out (like when cleaning the gun).  The
theory is that too many people are killed by accident because they
forgot to clear the chamber after removing the magazine.

It seems unlikely to me, but then again, lawyers don't keep my
genitals in a little box, as is done at the firearms makers.


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Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
They can have my urine sample when they pry it from my dead, cold fingers.
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed;" --
from James Madison's rough draft of the Second Amendment.