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Safeties, which 380 or 9M has a mag safety?

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  • Ozzman

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    Sorry folks, lol... I am gonna say it.....

    A HI-POINT C9 and CF380 have mag safeties.

    To the OP, honestly, dude practice makes perfect.
    I recommend you purchase the right pistol for your needs (mag safety or not) and train with that from the get-go.
    Don't fear the gun, master using it.

    If you follow the 10 commandments of firearm safety, you will obviously be ok.

    Actually, even if you only follow these 3 rules, you will be safe:
    - Never point the gun at anything you don't want to destroy (including yourself).
    - Know your target, and what is behind it.
    - Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
     

    Sasquatch

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    Never mind the fact that its the most retarded factory feature of a handgun next to a Hillary Hole (internal lock)...

    The classic Smith & Wesson metal frame auto loaders feature this...safety...

    SOME of their current production guns have it (Cali compliance shit) - you'll probably have to special order it by model number, as no self-respecting Texas gun shop is likely to have one in stock

    The Hi Power pistols have them *except* the new Hi Power released this year, they deleted that bug finally.

    Bersa pistols have it


    Circling back (to borrow Peppermint Patty's phrase) - they are shitty "features" that don't serve a real safety purpose. They DO make the trigger pull worse on most guns that have them. They also induce one more failure point into your gun. They can get YOU killed if you inadvertently bump your magazine release (it happens) and you need the gun NOW, you draw, pull the trigger, and you get nothing.

    If you're not comfortable with a semi auto and a chambered round yet - that's OK. A lot of us have had the same notion at one point or another. Its a training issue, the more you practice with the gun, the more you *safely* handle it, the more you practice dry fire, with snap caps, and practice your draws / holsters - you'll grow out of that fear.

    If you're concerned about a light trigger without some sort of safety, that's understandable too. A good gun to break yourself in on might be a traditional hammer fired double action pistol - these have a longer, heavy trigger pull for the initial pull, and a lighter single-action trigger pull for additional shots until you decock it. You could also go the DAO route and have every pull be consistently long & heavy, like a revolver. These were popular among police agencies that issued semi-autos in the 1990's / early 2000's.

    The Sig P-series (P220, 225, 226, 228, 229, 239, etc) and Sig Pro (SP2009, 2043, 2022) are hammer fired DA guns with decockers, or DAO models.

    The Beretta 9x family (92/96) can be had with safety/deockers, DAO, or decock only models.

    The Beretta P4X can be had with the safety decocker or decock only

    CZ-75 / P07/09 family of guns can be had with traditional safety, or in decock-only modes.

    HK USP family and derivitves upto the P30 / P45 family of guns are hammer fired DA guns with different options (safety / decocker, decock only, DAO, LEM which is a light DAO)

    There are others out there, but these listed are top tier in the style. This style may help ease your mind about chambered carry.
     

    gll

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    I'm trying to figure out why one would leave a round in the chamber, but no mag in the gun.
    Ostensibly, the reasoning was to allow the gun to be disabled by dropping the mag... as in the case of a struggle for the gun where the holder was losing control.

    Unfortunately, could work the other way, also. Magazine safeties have fallen out of favor for good reasons.

     

    zackmars

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    A magazine disconnect is not a feature, it is a bug, and is more likely (imo) to result in an negligent discharge, requiring a magazine to be inserted to dryfire, function test, perhaps disassemble the gun
     
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