Jeff Cooper's "conditions" were primarily meant to apply to 1911-style pistols. In a 1911, if the hammer is down, the pistol won't fire, so there is no need for the safety to be on.
I guess you could keep a 1911 in "1.5", so that one would have to flip the safety AND cock the hammer, to increase child safety, but in that case you should go with condition 3, since racking the slide would be faster than flipping safety plus cocking hammer, plus racking the slide requires more strength than a 2 year old has.
Yeah, see that makes more sense. I don’t have a 1911 type pistol. I have a manual safety but the first shot is a double action.
I thought the safeties for the 1911s were in the back grip. I know so many different places make 1911 styles I would guess then there are some that don’t do this?