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Essentially you'd have to pull the trigger twice to fire. Would that be considered condition 3 for revolvers? And is there any good reason to do that?
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Ah, yes, I heard that in an old Police Story tv show about 40 years ago. The old street cop told the rookie: "Of course you carry your gun with an empty chamber under the hammer, but you should also carry it with the next one empty. That way if some crook grabs it, it won't go off the first try and you have time to draw your backup gun."
The first is not necessary with any modern DA revolver (Modern beginning with Colt about 1908.), the second is Hollywood stupidity. I bet Joesph Wambaugh who got it started was not in charge of technical advisor.