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Originally Posted by Jim Keenan
Browning never seemed to favor manual safety devices on guns with hammers, evidently feeling that the half-cock and/or an inertia firing pin provided a perfectly adequate safety for carrying a loaded gun.
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EXACTLY!!!
If you look at all of the pistols that Browning designed for Colt, all of the pistols that featured an internal hammer (or striker) had both a manual safety AND a grip safety.
While the pistols with an exposed hammer had no manual safeties at all.
Until a grip safety appeared, in 1907, on the experimental pistols being developed for the military trials, at the request of the Army.
It wasn't until 1911 that a production Colt pistol had both an exposed hammer and a manual safety.
And the magazine disconnect "safety" that appeared in 1916 on the 1908 .25ACP and in 1926 on the 1903 .32 ACP & 1908 .380 ACP was entirely Colt's idea. They were not part of Browning's original design.