K Kid, when the gun is fired, the "pinfire" cocking levers move forward , but stop short of hitting the barrels or anything else. The levers do have a "half cock" bringing them back far enought so that the barrels can be lowered. Then the levers go to "full cock" , ready to fire. Actually the levers do cock very easily and are easy to reach for cocking on the quite small frame of this Grey patent gun.