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From: bobd@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bob DeBula)
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Subject: Re: Submission
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Date: 7 Jun 91 12:26:30 GMT
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In article <35325@mimsy.umd.edu> syoung%pecanpi.UUCP@mathcs.emory.edu writes:
#
#S&W, for example, builds magazine disconnectors into their guns.  If you
#try to order one without the magazine disconnector, the standard response
#is to say no (unless you are ordering on police department letterhead).
#
#On the other hand, I have a Model 3953 on order that will NOT have the
#magazine disconnector.  It took a couple of letters, a few phone calls,
#and a helpful local dealer, but they finally agreed to build it the way
#I want it.
#

On at least the older S&W model 39-2 that I have experience with,
I was able to very simply remove the magazine safety by removing the
rear site from the slide and turning the pistol upside down and allowing the
spring loaded detent that engages the magazine safety to fall out.
Presto! no magazine safety anymore..... (It's been about ten years since
I did this, so I may be forgeting some detail or the other, but
recollection is that this was essentially what I did and that it
was very easy to do).  Of course, you also want to verify that the
magazine is not in the pistol and the chamber is empty *before* you
disassemble the pistol :-}

Note that for the usual disclaimerish reasons I am not advocating
that you modify any pistol by removing the magazine safety.
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Bob DeBula                    | Disclaimer: These are my views, not the U's