Inside Gun Digest Books Blog  Gun Review: Shooting SIG-Sauer’s
P226    In the 1970s, the SIG-Sauer brand was new to American
firearms enthusiasts, and the company’s pistols took America by
storm. For a long time, the P226 was the most popular of the
series, for very good reasons, according to Massad Ayoob. He
shares his views in detail, in Massad Ayoob’s Greatest Handguns
of the World Volume 2:  Shooting the P226 by Massad Ayoob  The
P-series double action SIGs are all “point and shoot” guns,
whose designs do not require manual safeties. Some single action
variations, the P220 SAO and the X-5 for example, have ergonomic
frame-mounted thumb safeties that allow them to be carried
cocked and locked. If you prefer a safety catch with your double
action mechanism, you’ll need to look to Beretta, S&W, Ruger, or
any of several other makers. On the other hand, if you buy into
the KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid) theory that a
safety/decocker on a double action pistol should only be used as
a decocker, it shoul