Manual

pin protrudes beyond the rear face of the slide,

when the front face of the slide is.fully home.

In automatic fire, it is the safety sear which

releases the hammer and thus causes the shot to

be fired, because the trigger sear is not in action

in this case, except for the first shot of each burst

of fire.

In semi-automatic fire, it is the trigger sear

which finally releases the hammer, after it has

first been released by the safety sear; the me-

chanism has been so designed that the trigger

must be released, then pressed again, to permit

the following shot to be fired (see 4 below).

4. CHANGE LEVER

The lever arm can occupy one of the three fol-

lowing positions:

a) An uppermost position “5” when the rifle is

at safe:

in this position, if the trigger is pressed,

it is impossible to fire because the rounded part of

the change lever arm is over the trigger platform,

preventing it from rising to engage the tail of the

sear.

b) A front position “A”, which sets the mecha-

nism at automatic fire: before firing the rear tip

of the trigger is now so positioned in relation to

the deeper bent in the change lever axis that

pressing the trigger causes the sear to pivot

up-

words: the nose of the sear is consequently disen-

gaged from the hammer bent and firing takes

place.

In addition, the nose of the trigger sear has

been swung downwards so that it cannot contact

the hammer, which is controlled by the safety

sear only, so long as the trigger is not released;

firing depends on the safety sear, this frees