Where are the intercepting sears
Intercepting sears in my opinion were put on those guns because of the type of shooting where you had a loader take out the empties if needed, load gun and hand it back cocked and ready to fire hot with no safety on. Who knows how many times these guns were dropped and went off.
If American gun manufacturers thought intercepting sears were important they would have put them in.
One thing about the English guns is that at the end of the season the gun/s were sent back and everything looked over and fixed if need be. Not a practice here in the States.