Ok spacecoast from what you just said I think I made a big mistake in the past. I DID pry that plate off in the past this was my first gun and I'll just be honest here I DID pry it off a couple times to clean the mechanism
. I pryed against the hammer with a small flat blade screwdriver and am pretty embarrassed that I did so in hindsight. I didn't mess with or try to take apart the mechanism at all though I just sprayed it real good with some powder blast and oiled it a couple times. What problems might have been caused by this? I'm at work now but I'll take it apart as soon as I get home and take a look at it. This time of course I WILL TAP it off instead. I know a whole lot about ar's but I admit I put no real effort into learning about my revovler as I've been concentrated on learning about my rifle instead. Hopefully all isn't lost and I can fix whatever I screwed up here.