Ok, maybe the word impossible was not the correct one to use. But I know my weapon and you can not clean it with it assembled. And if you want to just run a rag down the barrel with it assembled, you have to pull the slide back, and lock it with a locking lever. This would eject any round in the chamber and it completely disables the firing mechanism. Trigger is disabled, firing pin can't move and wouldn't reach a round if you stuck one in by hand and tried.
To me the people that shoot themselves while
cleaning a gun aren't cleaning it. They normally do it before they start the process or after they have finished it.
Once I have mine cleaned and reassembled, I have to unlock the locking lever and let the slide forward. I do this without a magazine in it. That puts the hammer in de-cock position. You could hit it with a hammer and it won't move the firing pin but may break the gun's hammer. I then take it out of de-cock and put in the magazine and jack a round into the chamber just the way you would with any semi-automatic. I also have a selector that requires a dime or screwdriver to turn which will put the weapon into the double action revolver mode which means that I have to pull the trigger to pull the hammer back each shot just like a regular revolver.
So I will defer to your statement that nothing is impossible, but in my case I could not do it while I am actually cleaning the weapon.
Edit: To add word selector.
Ron
