Replacing The Lovely Harvey's M&P and checking all the pawn and gun shops around here for the missing one has me really looking hard at all the variety of safeties you can get with one.
You can get no safety at all. Which is what Marv and Harvey have.
You can get a manual safety that works like a 1911 or Hi Power.
You can get a magazine disconnect.
You can get an internal lock.
After disabling the internal lock on my 640-3 I think we know where I stand on those things.
I was the proud owner of a Gen1 Glock 17 way back in 1988 and have had a Glock 21 since 1992; so you can see I am OK with no safety at all. Owning the 640 also shows this since it's got no safety either.
Being a 1911 owner means you can see I am OK with manual safeties.
Being an HP owner means that I can cope with both the manual and magazine disconnect.
Many of the .25's come with magazine disconnects too.
In the HP's case, the disconnect makes the trigger pull kinda gritty.
Willard and I had a discussion about it and we came out ambivalent.
I am not going to seek out a gun that has a magazine disconnect because I must have that feature. As long as the disconnect doesn't hurt the trigger pull, I tend to not care if its there. So far the HP is the only gun where the disconnect hurts the pull where I've kept it.
I got the HP to have an HP, which means warts and all.
Which combination of safeties boils down to personal choices that won't be the same for everyone. Willard does maintain that he's right and disagreeing means you're wrong. I think he's kidding. Maybe.
Regardless you've got to get familiar with the gun you have and the safeties it's equipped with.
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