Just to expand on Parabola's comment regarding a (?)Spanish gun's faulty lockwork, an acquaintance (metallurgist/engineer) who carries out a considerable number of repairs on older traditional English sxs shotguns as well as modern O/U's of foreign manufacture (some of them quite pricey) remarked that the locks on the former were "without exception well filed, well tempered and properly hardened" whilst the latter's were "all soft as **** ".
This comment - and the fact that the most likely occasion for accidental discharge is on closure after reloading, makes it obvious why I get irritated when I am standing 50-60 yards in front of a "gun toter" who flicks his barrels up to close the action (mostly an O/U of continental manufacture.)

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