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From: baechler@disuns2.epfl.ch ((Emmanuel Baechler))
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Magazine safety
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Date: 14 Jun 91 20:05:05 GMT
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# In article <35459@mimsy.umd.edu>, baechler@liasun4.epfl.ch ((Emmanuel
# Baechler)) writes:
# # 
# # 
# #   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.
# 
# Removing the magazine safety from a pistol used strictly for target
# practice might be okay, but for a pistol intended for self-defense
# removing any safety device would be a pretty dumb idea. The
# prosecuting attorney could easily make you look like a wild eyed
# gunslinger to the jury for pulling something like that....

  Happily, I am in Switzerland and not in the US, so law is quite different.
Here, you are considered as an adult, and removing a safety is *YOUR*
responsiblity. You can be condemmned, for an unjustified use of your
firearm, but the fact that a safety has been removed is totally irrelevant.
Finally, shooters in Europe agree that the magazine safety of the
Browning GP-35
(I speak of this pistol, and no other one) MUST be removed whatever its
purpose is, because it makes its trigger so poor that it is almost
unusable.

Emmanuel Baechler
baechler@liasun4.epfl.ch
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
MA - Ecublens
1015 Lausanne	Switzerland