Recent content by Foothills223

This appears to have hit it on the head: with the bolt closed and the hammer cocked, the safety does engage, but with quite a bit more effort than I was expecting. Previous disassembly didn't show anything that appeared to be amiss, so I was almost going to assume that this was some sort of...

I fairly-recently purchased a new Mini-14 5819, and noticed (what is to me) a kind of odd behavior with the safety: if the bolt is open then I can switch the safety on and off at will, however with the bolt closed the safety can be switched off but is prevented from being switched back on (until...