Regarding revolver safety mechanisms:
Mr. Schneider here misstates slightly the issue of safety mechanisms (or lack thereof) on revolvers. Original Colt revolvers and authentic-to-detail copies, not just "cheap copies," as he said, can be fired by hitting the hammer, due to a lack of internal safety mechanism, such as a transfer bar, generally calling for one chamber to be left empty for the hammer to rest upon. Indeed, I discuss that in TDF 27 (see also TDF 107 for a brighter side to the matter). Some modern copies, such as Rugers, have some sort of disconnect system, making this empty chamber unnecessary.
If indeed this was any factor at all in the Alec Baldwin incident, then it points up the utter foolishness of insisting upon such a level of "authenticity," to the point of low safety, when we have today the technology to so increase safety with a de minimis level of alteration in appearance (and none in operation). This goes for movie guns, Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) guns, or a gun that might be put to actual 2A use (see TDF 31).
Fudd does not mean foolishness. Quite the opposite, actually.
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