[ranburr]

Nero45, the mag disconnect has nothing to do with bad guys. The French military was the initial force behind the development of the Hi Power. The mag disconnect (not even called a safety) was added at their request, they also requested the magazine be shortened from 15 to 13 rounds. They did not trust the gun handling skills of their soldiers. I can somewhat understand this when we are talking the poorly trained French military of the 1930s. I remember many times that our own troops would have ADs with M9s, especially MPs. Before entering the arms room, they would rack the slide and then drop the magazine instead of reverse order. When they stuck the pistol in the clearance barrel, they got a bang instead of a click. The mag disconnect on the Hi Power remedies this lack of training. That is the only thing it is good for.