Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!liasun4.epfl.ch
From: baechler@liasun4.epfl.ch ((Emmanuel Baechler))
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: magazine safety
Message-ID: <35459@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 13:47:40 GMT
Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
Lines: 18
Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu



  As far as I know, the origin of the controversy with the magazine
safety, is that it makes the trigger of the Browning GP-35 so horrible
that it is unusable. This is why the first thing to do, when you
receive one, is to remove that safety.

  I am not sure that this safety is really useful at all. Considering
a handgun as safe, simply because the magazine is a way, looks to me
as the best way to prepare an accident. The safety rule which consider
that a gun is loaded and chambered as long as you do not prove the
contrary by onpening the slide (and lock it open) and looking at the
barrel (and dropping the magazine) makes much more sense, IMHO.
Finally, grip safeties, firing pin safeties or Colt-like security
looks much more useful to me than the magazine one. 

Emmanuel Baechler
baechler@liasun4.epfl.ch