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From: wa3wbu!john@uunet.UU.NET (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: Magazine Safety
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Date: 15 Jun 91 15:16:33 GMT
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In article <35573@mimsy.umd.edu>, gozer!klm@uunet.UU.NET (Kevin L. McBride) writes:
# In article <35357@mimsy.umd.edu> gordonh@milton.u.washington.edu (Gordon Hayes) writes:
# SIG makes *combat* handguns.  They don't have a magazine safety.  I
# bought my P228 about 2 months ago.  I've fired over 1500 rounds at the
# range without a single jam or misfeed, and I carry it almost every
# day.  It is the most accurate of the 4 handguns I've owned.  It is
# extremely comfortable in my hand and I shoot better with it than with
# my Dan Wesson .357 revolver.
# 

 I'll concur with the SIG performance. My P-220 has had about 4000 rds
through it with one jam. That one jam occured when my uncle was firing
it and he was holding the gun so loose it nearly lept out of his hands. 
I wrote it off to operator error. :-)


					John



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