Posted: 11/9/2006 1:17:02 PM EDT
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So I just picked up a LNIB SS Springfield TRP. When I hold the gun in my right hand, the safety clicks on and off with a positive click. However, when I hold the gun in my left hand, the safety clicks on, but it doesn't click off. When I push down on it, it's like trying to push the saftey out on the other side. It doesn't click off when my left thumb is trying to de-activate the safety. Is this a common problem?  Brian |
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The way you are phrasing this is a bit confusing. Are you saying that the safety will not disengage LH but will RH, or are you saying that you hear a resounding "click" with RH operation, and your LH functions fine, but you don't hear the click (or something else?) If the latter, I wouldn't worry much about it if the safety functions properly and it is situated in the same position disengaged as if it was manipulated with the RH. Either way, I am a LH shooter and all but my "vintage" 1911s have ambis. All of them work fine, and all of them "click". |
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The safety is broken from what you are describing. The safety goes through the frame and has a 'tounge and groove' type of end on the "pin". The 'ambi' part (operator's right) isn't making with the actual safety (operator's left). That is the side that has the sear block in it for the safety. The part that has the tounge and groove is what goes through the grip safety. Feel free to email me with any questions. I'm not very good at explaining things by typing and I don't want to sound like too much of an idiot 
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| I had the same thing happen with my first Mil Spec Operator. The two pieces of the ambi safety were not staying together. I had the store I bought it from send it back once and they didn't fix it. After the gun came back and I found that I could pull both halves of the safety out of the frame, the store sent it back again and demanded a new gun. The new one they send me works wonderfully and I have had not problems with the safety at all. I would either take it to a gunsmith and have him fix the safety or install a standard safety, or just send it back to SA. |
Damnit. This sucks. My first experience with Springfield Armory isn't starting off too well. I wouldn't be too suprised if it happened on an entry level gun, but the TRP is far from that.  Can I just pop out the bad side of the safety and have a single sided safety that works right? |
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You sure can, but it needs to be fitted. Listen, call springfield and talk to them. Politely explain that you'd like the current defective safety replaced. Not only will they fix it but they'll reimburse you for the shipping. Just ask politely  ........... honey works wonders.
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That is why I do not like an Ambi safety... I cant shoot lefty (Im sure if I was MIL, LE or something I would learn to). Most people cant shoot lefty (they dont practice) so why have an ambi??? If you can shoot both hands and train both hands or are a lefty they are great. |
Because Murphy's Law will jump up & bite you right in the ass if you can't shoot both. Perhaps an ambi safety is a way of pushing folks to learn to use either hand once in a while????? |