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I keep wondering how a Makarov pistol manages to get by with not only not only no firing pin safety but no firing pin spring either.
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Don’t have one, but the Russians managed slamfires through primer insensitivity. That is one reason why people complain all the time about misfires with Russian ammunition and primers. It takes a stout ignition system to fire them off and many Western designs have wussy ignition systems and wussy American primers are often too sensitive to use in Russian military weapons.
I am quite certain the occasional Soviet was shot when he chambered a round with a sensitive primer in a Makarov.
The Soviets had a different attitude towards safety.