Originally Posted by CJF
Anyone have an older double with a grip safety?

Yep. Here's a 14-bore pin-fire by Hugh Snowie of Inverness, @1860, a Harris Holland 12-bore pin-fire from 1861, and an unmarked conversion to pin-fire. As mentioned by others, the grip safety was a hold-over from percussion guns, not seen often after pin-fires.

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