I hadn't noticed the safety is plastic! You mean the edges on the one from Brownell's are more abrasive?

One other thing didn't take me long to notice. You have to hold your hand/thumb just right when feeding shells into the magazine. The edges of the loading port are sharp as knives.

Keep in mind, I'm not looking for things to fault about the gun, not looking to nitpick it. Far as I'm concerned, it's a fine weapon. I'm not going to be loading it that much more, anyway. Probably run another fifty shells through it...maybe more if I get the mini-shell adapter...then it'll take its place as one of several home defense guns. I don't see this as a gun to take to the range all the time simply to have fun with it or show it off. It's a gun that was purchased for a particular purpose...nothing else.