• NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      13·
      4 months ago

      Since its component parts can be folded inward towards the cylinder, it is easily concealable inside a pocket. It was common to leave an empty chamber with no cartridge under the hammer, as the weapon has no trigger guard or safety catch.

      Bright idea: put a loaded gun with no safety in your pocket.

      • FireTower@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        10·
        4 months ago

        To be fair that accurately describes the precautions taken with many early revolvers. It would objectively be safer at the cost of a round of capacity. A lot of mechanical safeties and safety conventions weren’t around at the time.

      • swim@slrpnk.netEnglish
        8·
        4 months ago

        Well your quote is saying it was common to leave an empty chamber under the hammer, so that’s about as safe as it gets.

        It wasn’t/isn’t even uncommon to carry a revolver in one’s pocket fully loaded (with a round under the uncocked hammer), but generally there would be a trigger guard to help prevent the trigger being pressed through one’s clothes or by other contents in the pocket. But these would also generally be double-action revolvers with very heavy triggers.