A question of..Safety..

[todd allen]

Originally Posted by Bill Mullins

Jerry, my thoughts would be if you are going to have the gun restored is to have the safety reinstalled for obvious reasons. Several yesrs ago a large dealer in side by sides told me he never bought or sold a gun without a safety. He said his insurance carrier informed him he could have a liability issue if he sold one and the purchaser accidentally shot himself.

I agree with you on reinstalling the safety. That said, I disagree with the insurance company in regard to someone shooting themselves because the gun didn't have a safety.
If a safety is all that keeps someone from shooting themselves, that person shouldn't have had a gun in the first place.

[Jerry VanHorn]

I probably will have some cosmetics done. I've talked to Mr. Gorman about doing the barrels..and I'll do the wood. Which brings us to a suitable case color artisan...????..I'm on the fence about the safety...I'll probably never run across a consecutive # gun to see if either of those had safeties...

[Researcher]

It certainly appears that this gun was made with a safety and that the safety was removed from the gun aftermarket. No safety guns from Meriden wouldn't have the word SAFE engraved on the tang and the plug filling the slot would be almost invisible.

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