Revolvers...with manual safeties?

[Anh Le]

When I first saw a heritage rough rider, I saw that there was a manual safety on it. I remember thinking "well, that's something you don't see every day," but that also makes me wonder. Are there any other revolvers on the market that has something like this? I know that Dutch police revolvers and some really old guns do, but I've yet to find any in the current market that have this odd feature.

 

[Morgan]

Chinese police carry these revolvers with a manual safety

 

[JWC]

The S&W model 40 had a grip safety. There was also a pin that was stored under the grips that was used to disable the safety. The pin is almost always gone. The "Pre-Model 40s" were produced as early as 1952.

(Also the Model 42 and the "Pre-Model 42 which was the airweight version)

 

[Justin87]

I don't even like a manual safety on a striker fired gun. I sure as hell wouldn't want to buy a double action revolver that had one. Lawyer gun.

 

[Anh Le]

I don't even like a manual safety on a striker fired gun. I sure as hell wouldn't want to buy a double action revolver that had one. Lawyer gun.

It's not about whether or not a gun should have a manual safety. This seems to be a relatively unheard of thing, and I just want to see just how many models have such an abnormal addition to the gun.

 

[Justin87]

It's not about whether or not a gun should have a manual safety. This seems to be a relatively unheard of thing, and I just want to see just how many models have such an abnormal addition to the gun.

Yeah I've never heard of it before either.

 

[MRH]

It's not about whether or not a gun should have a manual safety. This seems to be a relatively unheard of thing, and I just want to see just how many models have such an abnormal addition to the gun.

It makes very little sense to me, but even less so on a Heritage revolver. They are SAO.

 

[cmshoot]

Wesley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver has a manual safety, but it is anything but standard.

Many Dutch and German police revolvers of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s had manual safeties.

 

[Anh Le]

It makes very little sense to me, but even less so on a Heritage revolver. They are SAO.

I believe it was their attempt to allow the gun to be dry fired without damaging the gun. Many rim-fire guns are not the most dry fire friendly. The gun was made more so for recreation than say...self defense, no? I think that safety feature is fine given the heritage's purpose.

 

[MRH]

I believe it was their attempt to allow the gun to be dry fired without damaging the gun. Many rim-fire guns are not the most dry fire friendly. The gun was made more so for recreation than say...self defense, no? I think that safety feature is fine given the heritage's purpose.

That makes sense. I never dry fired my old High Standard because of this.