Browning-Winchester-Marlin originally designed first class hunting rifles that functioned safely as designed without "extra safeties". From the 1870s to present, few hunters or lawmen needed an extra safety on their lever-action repeating rifles. Even the Turks used the 1866 Winchester against the Russians at the battle of Plevna. Side or top mounted, an extra safety is an abortionate useless appendage
thought up by liability liars called attorneys.

I have 1886 and Model 71 Winchesters with one early Marlin 1895: NONE have an extra safety
put on in violation of the Winchester-Browning-Marlin original patents.
The last REAL re-issues of the 1886/M 71 rifles were made by Browning in the 1980s and they did not find the need to add unsafe additions to their newer rifles.
My advice:
STOP buying new lever-action rifles with extra safeties...OR... modify them so you don't get eaten by a bear or stabbed by a migrant- with your rifle stuck in the middle-or permanently "safe".

John Browning would be pissed if he was handed a
modern 1886 with an extra safety! Respect the inventor and history.

(Most lawyers are latent leftist Democrats anyway.)

NRA LIFE
MAGA

I couldn't agree more. I consider extra safeties as an affront to my intelligence.

The Marlins are an easy fix as you can install the cross bolt delete kit in literally 10 minutes including tearing down the gun. The Winchester repros, I have a gunsmith do and replace or alter the parts to original specs. I have 1895's and 1886's that have been fixed. I have done and feel confident doing a crossbolt delete on the old crossbolt 1894's. I did my big bore 444, 307 Winchester and 356 Winchester at home with an article from Paco Kelly on how to do it. I did have a marlin 1894 44 magnum that bumped the crossbolt enough to freeze the firing on a treestand with the gun resting on the padded bar in front of me with the gun laying left to right on the stand in my hands. Cost me a nice 12 point in 1984 and I have been deleting from that day on.

the lawyers that worked for the companies were roommates of the litigation lawyers

I do not like the added safeties.

My buddy removed the safety from my Miroku '86 and put a Marble's tang sight over the slot. With the hammer rebounding and half milled away to 'enable' the safety, however, the downsides go on.

My adding washers to the mainspring and polishing the 'snake's tongue' seems to be working, though, and I haven't had a misfire since.

I can't even see sense in the way that safety worked. It did not stop the hammer falling, just caught it if it did, Presumably.

I had my smith take the safetys out of my Bowning 95 and a 86 and tossed them, tigged up the slot, blued it and the half cock worked fine..

The Browning re-issues never had the silly safeties, only the Winchester's did. Choose your guns wisely.