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aparootsa · February 6, 2013, 09:54 PM

For my plinking and such I use a Walther P22 (among others), and I was asked recently by a friend why I never use the safety on it. Answer was that I never leave it with rounds in the mag (or chamber), but that I also hate a safety that I have to sweep UP to disengage. I find it much much more intuitive and mechanically easier to sweep my thumb down before firing, so...

anyone heard of a kit to make the safety work that way? From a brief look at it, it'd just be a matter of a different-shaped stop, but I'm not a gunsmith and didn't spend more than a few seconds looking at it. I did spend a little time looking around for one, but didn't even know what to put into a search engine or a part catalog.

And just for my edification, does anyone know what the reasoning was to have down safe and up fire?

February 6, 2013, 09:54 PM	#1
aparootsa Member Join Date: March 29, 2009 Posts: 72	safety mod for P22? For my plinking and such I use a Walther P22 (among others), and I was asked recently by a friend why I never use the safety on it. Answer was that I never leave it with rounds in the mag (or chamber), but that I also hate a safety that I have to sweep UP to disengage. I find it much much more intuitive and mechanically easier to sweep my thumb down before firing, so... anyone heard of a kit to make the safety work that way? From a brief look at it, it'd just be a matter of a different-shaped stop, but I'm not a gunsmith and didn't spend more than a few seconds looking at it. I did spend a little time looking around for one, but didn't even know what to put into a search engine or a part catalog. And just for my edification, does anyone know what the reasoning was to have down safe and up fire?