FIE Tanfoglio TZ75 fires as soon as safety is released.

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I just received the above pistol from a good friend that inherited it from a relative. I took the firearm out to my range and noticed after putting a round in the chamber, with the hammer cocked, and releasing the safety the firearm would fire. Therefore I completely disassembled the gun and checked the sear, in doing so I noted the magazine friction piece to have a broken tip where it goes into the main spring well. Backing up just a bit I noted the edges of the sear and the hammer to be nice and sharp and nothing out of the norm on these parts or the safety for that matter.

To be perfectly honest I have no idea after reassembling this hand gun with the new mag friction piece, why it continues to fire when releasing the safety. Any help will be definitely appreciated.
 
Surely someone out there must have a clue to what is occurring. What I'm trying to figure out is why would the hammer be released when just releasing the safety in the down position???
 
Safety mounted on the slide or on the frame??

If it's frame mounted.......
Remove the slide so you can see the action.
Cock the hammer and inspect the sear and sear block, and how the safety operates on the sear when it's put ON and put OFF.

Probably, something has been botched up that allows the safety to somehow move the sear when the safety is moved.
Also check the hammer and sear for alterations. Especially check the hammer to make sure it has a "half cock" safety notch on the hammer. Often people attempt to improve the trigger and wind up with the hammer catching on the safety notch. When that happens they tended to stone down or entirely stone off the hammer safety notches.
If the sear moved off the cocking notch for any reason, the hammer just dropped and fired the gun.

If it's slide mounted, likely the safety or sear has been botched up so that when the safety is applied it's attempting to de-cock the gun.
If I remember correctly, the original FIE with slide mounted safety was NOT a de-cocker, it was simply a firing pin lock.
If something is botched here, when the safety is applied the hammer just drops and fires it.
 
Yes the safety is mounted on the left side of the frame, and the firearm doesn't have a de-cocker. I checked the hammer and the sear again and both seem to have been messed with, really sharp edges, like I mentioned earlier, now I'm wondering where I'm gonna get the parts to make it function safely. I did manage to get the mag friction piece from Numerich.. Any suggestions? BTW thanks dfariswheel for the suggestions, kind of what I was thinking all along, but hoped it was something less expensive. Further the safety does hold the hammer back, it is just when the safety is applied that the hammer falls forward.
 
Tanfoglio of Italy actually built almost all of the CZ-75 clone pistols as sold by F.I.E, Excam, Springfield Armory, and a number of others.

European American Armory sell all parts for the Tanfoglio guns, and parts like the hammer and sear seem to have never changed during production, so a current EAA hammer and sear should fit an F.I.E. gun.
If you tell them the parts are for a F.I.E. gun they may or may not tell you the parts will fit.
Former employees of F.I.E. started EAA.

Still, as above, the key parts like the hammer and sear don't seem to have ever changed from the early Tanfoglio guns right up to the current EAA Witness imports. The design has changed, but I think a EAA hammer and sear will work with the necessary fitting.

If you notice, on Gun Parts Corporation's site the same parts are sold under the EAA Witness, Springfield P9, and Excam names. This is why i suspect current EAA parts can be fitted.

http://eaacorp.com/gun_accessories/index.php/parts/tanfoglio/witness.html
 
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