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apostate wrote: The same is true with a modern DA semiauto with the hammer down, no? My SIG 228 should be as safe as a revolver if carried hammer-down. Same for a Beretta 92, etc.

I can understand concern with the striker-fired guns popular now, especially for new LTC. Not because they will "go off" by themselves, but rather because the triggers have less margin of error, like a vehicle that oversteers.

Good analogy.

No round under the hammer, on a modern revolver with a transfer bar or other drop-safe provisions, has never made any sense to me. If the hammer is eliminated as the thing that might discharge the gun, about the only other thing to worry about would be the trigger. And to make that safer by removing a round would require removing the round in the next cylinder to fire, not from under the hammer.

Which would be utterly without logic.

Also, an empty chamber makes no difference in how a gun is handled. There should be no assumption of increased safety.