>You can replicate this with many bolt action rifles by just removing
>the magazine. You could probably do the same with this pistol, come
>to think of it, as it doesn't have a magazine safety, I wonder if
>that's why it doesn't?

Quite possibly (that and magazine safeties screw up the trigger pull). The ready accessibility of the chamber when the slide is open also lends itself to that kind of thing.

As for availability, I'm not sure anyone is manufacturing a gun like, say, the Hawes Favorite new nowadays, but the thing about guns is that they're quite durable. It's not that hard to find used ones.

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