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Grump, I didn't mean that Ruger licensed the IJ transfer bar, just that they USE it.
Yes, they were sued multiple times by people who could not be bothered to follow instructions and got shot for it. One case I recall that made the NY Times was the bush pilot who put his 6 up Ruger on the wing of his plane. It slid off the smooth aluminum, landed on the hammer, and went off with him in the line of fire.
Cheaper to redesign the gun with a known effective system than to keep paying off the dummies.
I am not worried about the non captive quarter cock safety shelf on a Series 80 Colt. I sure don't carry it there and if the full cock crumbles and lets the hammer go against it, I figure it bouncing off and hitting the firing pin hard enough to shoot is a remote risk. But then a regular 1911 does not scare me, either.
Unlike polyphemus, MY S80 Colts do not have captive notches.
If you want to see something weird, look at a Springfield hammer. It may (not all do) have both a captive half cock and a low stop ledge.
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