Ambidextrous safeties for a Para Ordnance

by Otony, Wednesday, June 05, 2013, 08:47 (4134 days ago) @ Hoot

Kimber makes a version of the King ambi safety. It does not have the "wing", rather it relies on an unusual hammer (sear?) pin the head of which rides in a dovetailed groove in the back of right side safety.

No wing, no problem. Kimber's version is more than likely MIM, however the older King version was a heat-treated casting that was finish machined. My old brain is not firing on all cylinders as yet, but it seems to me that someone else is making a higher grade version of this safety. I have also heard rumors that while King is out of the custom business it is still making small parts. Their safety was used on select pistols used by some special combined unit of the military a few years back, so those are "good to go" as hey say. It is what my Springfield wears, btw.

The old Colt/Mueshke safety was similar, but in that version the end of the sear pin is extended and notched, capturing the thinned forward leading edge of the right side safety. Either should work just fine, but I know we have double stack Paras in the shop that wear ambi-safeties. Let me take a look at those today and I will report back this evening.

Otony