Appreciate the advice. Appears as those the threads in the hole stuck to the screw and broke off the hole and stayed on the screw. An interesting conundrum i have now lol. I imagine the lever would have some form of spring in there somewhere? If I manage to straighten the lever the gun won't stay locked. When its all said and done I'm hoping to have a better looking wall hanger foe myself. Along with learning new things and techniques.