Without this safety disengaged, the firing pin wouldn’t move even if struck by the hammer. When the trigger is pulled, a small lever rises up out of the frame to disengage the locking bar and allow the firing pin to move forwards. The firing pin is held back and away from the primer of the cartridge by a spring, and locked in place using a locking bar built into the slide.
When the hammer moves to strike the firing pin when the trigger is pulled, the hammer actually slingshots forward across the gap between the resting position and the firing pin, strikes the pin and snaps backwards again.Ī secondary safety feature is actually built into the slide itself. The spring isn’t under tension, and the hammer has no way of impacting the firing pin. With the P226, the natural state for the hammer is decocked and sitting just behind the firing pin (a few millimeters away, in fact) – not touching it. If the hammer is back, it’s under pressure from the spring to snap forward. On a gun like the 1911, the natural state for the hammer to be is flush against the firing pin. As soon as it’s out of the holster it’s good to go.Īnother nice safety feature on the gun is the fact that the hammer, when decocked, is nowhere near the firing pin. The shooter doesn’t have to worry about flipping a mechanical safety on or off. The lack of a safety means that the P226 can be quickly drawn and employed if deadly force is required. That converts the relatively light single action trigger to heavier double action that’s much less likely to be accidentally pulled. The gun is meant to be carried with a round in the chamber and the hammer decocked. There are only three controls: the slide stop, the magazine release and the decocker. The biggest difference between the P226 and the 92FS is plain to see - there’s no safety on the P226. The 92FS was eventually chosen, it’s said, due to a lower cost of ownership, but the Navy SEALs and police departments nationwide dismissed the results and purchased P226es anyway. When the dust cleared, only the P226 and Beretta’s 92FS remained standing over the corpses of FN, H&K, Colt and S&W’s entries.
was being thrown around and redesigned their existing service handgun that they had designed for the German military (the P220) as a double stacked 9mm and submitted it to the trials.
Sig Sauer saw the opportunity to get in on some of the sweet government contract money that the U.S. The platform was still useful and deadly, but NATO was standardizing around the 9mm cartridge and the powers that be decided that 8 rounds wasn’t enough for their soldiers. military was looking for a replacement for the M1911A1 handguns that had been in service since World War One.
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