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From: nstar!bluemoon!jamaass@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Jeffrey A. Maass)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: Magazine Safety
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Date: 13 Jun 91 13:53:47 GMT
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gt2852c@prism.gatech.edu (Edward Hefter) writes:

# 
# 
# Quoting many people...
# ##From article <35305@mimsy.umd.edu>, by Edward Hefter:
# ## I've never really wanted to shoot without a clip, now that I stop and thin
# ## about it.  What kind of situation are you envisioning?
# #
# #The one that comes to my mind is the situation in which you're replacing
# #mags during a fight.  If you choose your time appropriately, you still
# #have a round ready to go while the gun is (partially) disassembled, so
# #if someone surprises you on the flank (or if you drop your next clip
# #while wetting your pants), you at least have something to throw at them
# #besides the gun itself.
# 
# I've seen this answer now about a thousand times, and I agree, it is quite
# correct and something I totally failed to consider.  Then again, I never
# envision myself engaged in a shoot-out.  Rather than tell me again about
# the same situation, are there any other situations, or any mechanical
# reasons, why a magazine safety is "bad"?


On the Browning Hi-Power, the magazine safety makes the trigger
less than ideal: almost a two-stage feel. Removing the safety
helps to make the trigger pull smooth and break "crisply".

 This is from
     jamaass@bluemoon.uucp
     jamaass%bluemoon@nstar.rn.com
who doesn't have their own obnoxious signature yet