From the IDPA forum dated Mar 9 (so old news to some perhaps):
Magazine Disconnectors
There is precedence in other action shooting sports for a magazine disconnector to not be considered a safety. Trigger reliability work and trigger replacement is currently allowed for ESP & CDP. *Several aftermarket trigger kits have no magazine disconnector or any capability of accepting a disconnector. Based on this information, the rules clarification committee has ruled that a magazine disconnector is not a safety and can be removed as part of trigger reliability enhancements.*
Locks, Disconnectors & Safeties in Rules Clarifications 2012 Forum
Yay. Besides being a pain, seeing people try to keep a separate hammer dropping empty mag segregated from the others seemed like asking for trouble. More than removing the disconnect, anyway.
What most people don't realize is that not all HiPowers come with magazine disconnects (I refuse to call it a "safety"). FN/Browning will make them either way if you order it, and have done that for several decades. How many you have to order to get this special treatment I don't know. Maybe ten thousand or maybe one. When Browning gets such an order, they make extra and sell them on the civilian market. I bought a new BHP in 2003 that has no provision for a mag disconnect, and I assume it was one of those over runs. AIM surplus and others have sold HiPowers that are supposedly Israeli contract guns that don't have them.
Magazine Disconnectors
There is precedence in other action shooting sports for a magazine disconnector to not be considered a safety. Trigger reliability work and trigger replacement is currently allowed for ESP & CDP. *Several aftermarket trigger kits have no magazine disconnector or any capability of accepting a disconnector. Based on this information, the rules clarification committee has ruled that a magazine disconnector is not a safety and can be removed as part of trigger reliability enhancements.*
Locks, Disconnectors & Safeties in Rules Clarifications 2012 Forum
Yay. Besides being a pain, seeing people try to keep a separate hammer dropping empty mag segregated from the others seemed like asking for trouble. More than removing the disconnect, anyway.
What most people don't realize is that not all HiPowers come with magazine disconnects (I refuse to call it a "safety"). FN/Browning will make them either way if you order it, and have done that for several decades. How many you have to order to get this special treatment I don't know. Maybe ten thousand or maybe one. When Browning gets such an order, they make extra and sell them on the civilian market. I bought a new BHP in 2003 that has no provision for a mag disconnect, and I assume it was one of those over runs. AIM surplus and others have sold HiPowers that are supposedly Israeli contract guns that don't have them.