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Originally Posted by Engine49guy
The post war P1 manual instructs you to operate the decock lever and lower the hammer with your thumb so perhaps best to employ this technique.
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German post-war military arms manual ZDV 3/15 "Die Ausbildung mit der Pistole P1 und mit der Maschinenpistole MP2 und MP 2 A 1 does not say anything like that, neither does my German civilian manual. Instead the manuals both go into lengthy descriptions of the safety mechanism and explains that they are absolutely safe.
I shot well over a hundred used and abused P38/P1 pistols when sighting them in in the West German military and never had a safety fail, nor heard of it.