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    4 months ago

    Well your quote is saying it was common to leave an empty chamber under the hammer, so that’s about as safe as it gets.

    It wasn’t/isn’t even uncommon to carry a revolver in one’s pocket fully loaded (with a round under the uncocked hammer), but generally there would be a trigger guard to help prevent the trigger being pressed through one’s clothes or by other contents in the pocket. But these would also generally be double-action revolvers with very heavy triggers.