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When was the safety on a gun invented?
By | December 20, 2009
I don’t need an exact date just a time period would be nice.
When idiots started getting lawyers and suing gunmakers for accidents caused by the idiots’ carelessness. 
Seriously guns have had safety features like "half-cock" notches in actions for several hundred years. Modern mechanical safeties started appearing on bolt-actions around 1890. The transfer bar safety was first introduced around 1900. Modern transfer bar safeties started appearing on lever-actions, semi-automatics, pumps… probably around WWII. (Yes the M1 rifle and carbines had them during/before the War but…) Which brings us back to my initial answer…
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December 20th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
the first safety was a hammer in the lowered position not raised to the firing position. the first hammer less breech loader from the designer of the firearm. Jesse p.s. cocked edit cocked is not a dirty word it is commonly used to describe the firlng posltion of the hammer e.g. the gun is cocked and ready to shoot.
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December 20th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Edit to Jesse…..
Fucked is NOT a vulgar word, in fact, fucked actually derived from when in the 1800′s, women were fucking for money and on the citation, they used to just say For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. But after a time, they just started writing fuck. So, even though it is not a fucking statistically or biblically a bad word, and in all actuality, just a fucking acronym, we all are bit fucked by this whole fucked system. Although, telling someone to "get fucked" isn’t very nice. JK. late nite humor.
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Lock and load. Keep your powder dry.
-Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel, is the muzzle flash-
-Brew
December 20th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
The Dog Lock, a form of flintlock action, was developed in the first quarter of the 17th Century.
The Dog Lock included a catch which locked the c0ck in the fully c0cked position and had to be released before the weapon could be fired.
I suppose that one could argue that the manually operated priming pans of many 14th, 15th and 16th Century matchlock muskets might be called a safety of sorts since they had to be manually opened before the weapon could be fired.
Doc
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December 20th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
The earliest "safety" I ever encountered was on a 17th Century Austrian fowling piece, a 14 bore "wheel-lock" smooth-bore musket that was brought into my shop for repair (the sear, chain and tumbler were missing, and needed replacing). It had a pan cover (covering the priming pan), that had to be slid out of the way before firing, and a striker block that had to be slid backward from behind the hammer in order to free it for a full forward stroke as it engaged the pyrites on the wheel. After 3 weeks of tinkering, I finally got the old girl to shoot properly.
This was one of the most challenging gunsmithing jobs I had ever undertaken. And it was a pure pleasure to see the old gal shoot.
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30 years a professional gunsmith, over 40 as a shooter
December 20th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
When idiots started getting lawyers and suing gunmakers for accidents caused by the idiots’ carelessness.
Seriously guns have had safety features like "half-cock" notches in actions for several hundred years. Modern mechanical safeties started appearing on bolt-actions around 1890. The transfer bar safety was first introduced around 1900. Modern transfer bar safeties started appearing on lever-actions, semi-automatics, pumps… probably around WWII. (Yes the M1 rifle and carbines had them during/before the War but…) Which brings us back to my initial answer…
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