I am not left handed but I do tend to like an ambi safety arrangement, just in case. You never know when you may have an injury that takes your primary hand or arm out of action. I also have several friends who are left handed and although JMB was left handed the standard arrangement for most handguns with the controls placed for right hand only use can be a problem for them.GasGuzzler wrote:Never owned a Springfield and likely never will. First thing I did when I got my 1911 was take the ambidextrous safety off and replaced it with GI parts. I wouldn't mind having an old one.
I do tend to prefer the 1911 ambi safeties where the RHS is held in place with a extended and headed hammer pin. I can understand why you wouldn't exactly like the two piece shaft that most of the 1911 style ambi's use but I have had good luck with them so far.
The BHP MKIII ambi safety uses a slightly extended shaft and pins the RHS lever in place with a small roll pin. IF somehow the roll pin failed you still have the full shaft and the standard LHS lever firmly in place. I do know that some folks didn't like the ambi setup and they would remove the RHS lever and sometimes even shorten the shaft and reblue the end.
I have not changed to ambi on all my firearms by any means. Not all of them are designed so that's an option and many are designed with right hand only controls with no aftermarket options. It also gets expensive when quality parts are added up. I will much more often come down on the side of "IF it ain't broke, don't fix it!" than on the side of I just had to change something or everything regardless of whether or not it works at all afterwards. That said IF/When I do change something I want it to work without question whether it's a firearm, a vehicle or whatever.