This problem of whether a gun could be opened with the right hammer cocked or worse yet, if it could be opened if the right hammer NOT cocked and required both a fishtail lever AND a notched hammer really brings the spotlight on the department responsible for fitting locks and hammers to a particular gun. There were/are several known sizes and shapes of Parker Bros. hammers and it seems like it ought to have been a 'no brainer' to fit a correctly sized or shaped hammer to a gun necessitating only ONE of these modifications. It seems somebody was not doing his job to the best of his ability... IMHO
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