There are many different types of guns and every ones experiance and exposure is different. My experience tells me that the hammer on my Beretta 92fs and Ruger P series will drop the hammer when the safety lever is toggled into the off position. These guns behave the same as their de-cocking brethren, except the decocker lever is spring loaded to return to the 'ready to fire' position.TEX wrote: As mentioned by someone else, the de-cocker doesn’t just let the hammer fall, but also limits the fall or puts a block in front of the hammer so it can’t actually touch the firing pin. I never have felt completely comfortable with de-cockers and always hold the hammer between by finger and thumb to let it down slowly when de-cocking. Probably completely unnecessary, but I did it that way anyway if the piece is still loaded. The difference between a safety and a decocker is that a manual safety prevents the hammer from falling at all, whereas the decocker forces the hammer to fall, but does so without letting the hammer contact the firing pin. I have only seen de-cockers on DA-2-SA autos.
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- Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:50 am
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- Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:48 pm
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In a typical DA/SA with manual the safety will decock the gun so the hammer will fall, and disconnect the trigger from the firing mechanism.surprise_i'm_armed wrote:To TEX:
Thank you for your long post above on safety styles.
What's a BDM?
Also, can you enlighten the viewers at home on the semantics or
actual differences between a "safety" and a "de-cocking lever"?
a de-cocking lever is a safety lever that won't stay in the safe position because it is spring loaded.
- Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:58 am
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There is one other safety that hasn't been mentioned it is the key and lock found on some Smith and Wessons, and Taurus' You can lock the gun with a key and it is inoperable until unlocked. I never heard of anyone actually using this "feature" though. I believe it is a Brady invention.