Nickel Thunder 380 Plus
There are actually 2 safeties on this gun. The trigger safety requires a little key that should have come with the gun that lets you turn a little black ring on the left above the trigger from "F" fire to "S" safe. I never use it though.
As for the other safety, if you hold back the hammer and look under the firing pin while moving the safety back and forth you will see that it is a hammer block safety/de-cocker. Even though you can pull the trigger the hammer should not move, so something might be wrong or in any case different than mine.
On the plus side, you should still not have to worry about the pistol ever firing even accidentally if the safety is on because the bar blocks the hammer from ever touching the firing pin. And you should be unable to do single action since the safety de-cocks the hammer. If I pull my trigger nothing happens, but if I pull the hammer back it pulls the trigger back too, still nothing happens and it won't stay cocked. One way to see if it is correctly blocking the hammer: With the hammer de-cocked you should see it move forward a little as you turn off the safety because the hammer blocking bar gets removed.
Not sure if I used the right terminology for all this. I was just describing as best I can what happens with mine. If our 2 guns are different it might be a matter of when they were made. I've heard they were a little different prior to the lifting of the hi-cap mag ban.
There are actually 2 safeties on this gun. The trigger safety requires a little key that should have come with the gun that lets you turn a little black ring on the left above the trigger from "F" fire to "S" safe. I never use it though.
As for the other safety, if you hold back the hammer and look under the firing pin while moving the safety back and forth you will see that it is a hammer block safety/de-cocker. Even though you can pull the trigger the hammer should not move, so something might be wrong or in any case different than mine.
On the plus side, you should still not have to worry about the pistol ever firing even accidentally if the safety is on because the bar blocks the hammer from ever touching the firing pin. And you should be unable to do single action since the safety de-cocks the hammer. If I pull my trigger nothing happens, but if I pull the hammer back it pulls the trigger back too, still nothing happens and it won't stay cocked. One way to see if it is correctly blocking the hammer: With the hammer de-cocked you should see it move forward a little as you turn off the safety because the hammer blocking bar gets removed.
Not sure if I used the right terminology for all this. I was just describing as best I can what happens with mine. If our 2 guns are different it might be a matter of when they were made. I've heard they were a little different prior to the lifting of the hi-cap mag ban.
