sear safeties

[MikeP]

Originally Posted by Ron Wood

Lack of training isn't something that is unique to the German police. I served as payroll officer a few times and one time when I went to pick up the cash a guy who had arrived just before me went up to the clearing point outside the finance building. You guessed it...he cleared his .45 by shooting 7 rounds into the barrel that you were supposed to use to make sure your weapon was unloaded after you had cleared it. It got a lot of attention from the folks inside the building, plus a couple of MPs that weren't particularly amused.

When I was out processing at Bien Hoa, I had to go to finance and jump through their hoops.
There was a bucket to clear weapons at the gate like most places.
I removed my .45 mag and fired the chambered round into the bucket-just for effect.
The results were absolutely hilarious. Getting tears on my keyboard thinking about it.
I think they were afraid I was going to try and clear one of the little Swedish grenades I had, too.

Regarding the previous remark on many service pistols having no safeties.
I know about Tokarevs, but never saw any others.
Am I missing something?
Relatively few GIs ever had to handle pistols very much.
I do think we were in a much more safety oriented profession than a cop off the streets, though.