>Many modern semiautomatic handguns have at least partially
>ambidextrous and/or switchable controls

I bodged together a couple of annotated photos to illustrate what I mean here. The CZ 82 has as ambidextrous a setup as one is likely to find in a semiautomatic handgun—more so than many, since it has not just a reconfigurable magazine release, as in the Beretta Px4 and various others, but a fully ambidextrous one right out of the box.

Again, as noted earlier, the lack of a slide release on the right side of the gun isn't really an issue for me, since there is another way to do what it does. The only time you really need the slide release in most semiautos is if you want to drop the slide on an empty magazine, and it's not a huge inconvenience to take the magazine out, drop the slide by pulling it back and releasing it (same as you would during a reload), and then put the empty mag back.

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