Re: US Revolver Co.
The term "safety" in advertising hammerless revolvers also was used to indicate that the gun could not fire if dropped on the hammer (since the hammer was concealed), and the gun could not be fired by children (since it could not be thumb cocked and the trigger pull was too hard for a youngster to fire it double action). Of course the regular hammer type Iver Johnson had the transfer bar, but it and the hammer type U.S. revolvers could still be manually cocked.
Jim
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