The Firing Line Forums - View Single Post - Curious, what's the BEST handgun safety design?

SHE3PDOG · March 28, 2014, 11:35 PM

I like grip and trigger safeties the best as they allow the gun to be ready as soon as you hold it correctly or press the trigger. If we are counting decockers as safeties, I am a fan as long as they don't have superfluous safeties on them. A good example of what I'm talking about is found on the Sig P226 or the BD models from CZ.

I'm not really the biggest fan of most manual safeties, but HK's design with the safety/decocker and 1911 style frame safeties are okay by me...just okay. I hate the Beretta M9 slide mounted safety, and safeties that push up to fire.

Also, any sort of internal lock strikes me as pretty pointless, and I'd be terrified if I lost the key. Unfortunately, I own a couple that have locks, I just never use them.

March 28, 2014, 11:35 PM	#3
SHE3PDOG Senior Member Join Date: January 27, 2013 Posts: 988	I like grip and trigger safeties the best as they allow the gun to be ready as soon as you hold it correctly or press the trigger. If we are counting decockers as safeties, I am a fan as long as they don't have superfluous safeties on them. A good example of what I'm talking about is found on the Sig P226 or the BD models from CZ. I'm not really the biggest fan of most manual safeties, but HK's design with the safety/decocker and 1911 style frame safeties are okay by me...just okay. I hate the Beretta M9 slide mounted safety, and safeties that push up to fire. Also, any sort of internal lock strikes me as pretty pointless, and I'd be terrified if I lost the key. Unfortunately, I own a couple that have locks, I just never use them.