Originally Posted By: DrBob
Given that Lefever had the brilliance to make a safety you could "turn off", why would they make guns with no safety at all? My AA is like that. I suppose somebody back then who could afford an AA was planning on shooting it at Gentleman's Clays only, but what if J.D Rockefeller invited him on a snipe hunt?


I've never owned one but I've often read that "live pigeon" guns were often made with no safety, at all. Probably at the original owner's request. Lots of single barrel trap guns were made with no safety, of course.


> Jim Legg <