Great post!

To me, this is a clear reminder of the decocking issue seen in the old Girandoni and also the London Air canes: difficulty of safely decocking. Like as seen with later versions of the Girandoni, there needs to be a decocking override button to bring the gun to a safe decocked state.

The inherent danger of the Girandoni type is memorialized in the Meriwether Lewis journal and the air gun accident on Bruno Is.

This Browning safety issue sounds even worse.