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Old 09-11-2010, 04:00 AM
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I keep wondering on that old joke dialogue in movies where a gun with a revolver tricks an idiot by saying he left the safety on. Are there actually revolvers with safeties, like a manual safety?
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Old 09-11-2010, 04:51 PM
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I keep wondering on that old joke dialogue in movies where a gun with a revolver tricks an idiot by saying he left the safety on. Are there actually revolvers with safeties, like a manual safety?
I've found one: http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg199-e.htm
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Old 09-12-2010, 11:41 PM
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The German Reichsrevolver had one, as did many European-made pocket revolvers in the 19th century.
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