The TM/UHC Beretta 92 LW/HW has a nonfunctional slide lock, choosing to make it a safety instead. As a safety though, it doesn't work too well. The trigger is plastic, so excessive force on the trigger while the gun is safed will cause the trigger to break. However, the positioning of this safety/slide lock lever is still realistic so it allows a conversion from the original safety lever configuration to the more realistic (and more useful, in my opinion) functionality of being a slide lock. All perspecives are from the shooter's POV.

Warning: This process is irreversable. In order to regain functionality of the saftey again, you would need to order another slide lock lever from UHC.

Step 1: Pull back the slide as far as it will go and note where the edge of the safety lever is relative to it. Mark a line with a pen on the slide about 1-2mm from that point.

Step 2: Field strip the Beretta 92 (for instructions, click here). Remove the barrel assembly and the piston shroud assembly from inside the slide.

Step 2: On the left side of the slide, carve a notch with a serrated blade with the edge on the line you drew, faced back (see figure to the rightfor dimensions).

Step 3: Shave off the two prongs on the safety lever so that only a flat side remains, like the picture on the right. Put a bit of putty on the safety switch inside the frame of the gun (the switch that the slide lock/safety switch had previously toggled) to prevent it from activating on its own.

Step 4: Re-assemble gun. If it is done correctly, the slide catch should catch onto the slide to prevent it from returning to its firing position, and chamber the first BB in the new mag. It it doesn't then you cut the edge too far back.