Posted: 8/8/2009 12:15:39 PM EDT
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Does anyone know if the following are drop safe?
Tauras 85 Smith & Wesson 442 Smith & Wesson 642 Ruger LCR Are most of these airweight revolvers without an exposed hammer drop-safe? Are there any others (Colt, Rossi, etc.) that I should know about in regards to drop safety, in the event that I run across one? I'm want a CCW piece for pocket carry on those days that I am feeling too lazy to carry my normal CCW. Currently I've got a Ruger LCP, but I want something a little bigger and better, to fill the gap in my collection between that any my Glock 26 & Glock 19 (which are my normal CCWs). I'm leaning towards a revolver because its simple and, for pocket carry (or other unconventional methods), I'd prefer the heavy DA trigger of a snubbie. Thanks guys... |
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Quoted: Thank you gentlemen! So the LCR has a transfer bar...what about the 442? I've never been inside the sideplate of a 442, but I would imagine that it has the same transfer bar safety that my 637 does. And older S&W revolvers with the firing pin on the hammer used a rebounding hammer, which rested above the primer and didn't come down to touch the primer unless the trigger was pulled completely back. S&W figured out the drop-safe thing many years ago. |
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All of them are "drop safe". As a matter of fact, if you want to, get a hammer and beat the shit out of the rear of each one. It will not fire.
Modern double action revolvers are THE safest handguns ever manufactured in the history of firearms. Yes the 442 has a transfer bar. |
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Just about any revolver with a hammer with a flat face on it will be drop safe. They use whats known as a transfer bar that only moves into position when the trigger is pulled to the back. Even when S&W revolvers still had firing pins on the hammer, they had hammer block safeties that made them drop safe. |