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The glock mechanism of safeties is (statistically) rather safe though being simple enough:

https://crimefictionbook.com/2016/02/04/do-glocks-have-safet...

But (as I learned only recently) there are guns around with actually no "proper" safety and one model at least is particularly prone to fire accidentally:

https://www.thetrace.org/2023/04/sig-sauer-p320-upgrade-safe...

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Yeah that one has been rather concerning. In theory you follow all the firearm safety rules (especially watching where you're pointing) and if something goes haywire things turn out relatively fine, but I certainly wouldn't be comfortable using one personally.

A lot of the issues in general seem to come about around holstering which is one of the situations where you're most likely to be "breaking" the rules pointing towards yourself, certainly not ideal.

Reholstering is one of the stronger objective arguments for a safety, but that still assumes the safeties themselves are properly designed.

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