I know that when my Grandfather purchased his Browning 1910 automatic in the 1930s he tried to show my Gran how to use it. In the end he gave it up as a lost cause. It wasn't a case of gun safety, more a case of my Gran having a complete lack of understanding of guns and an inability to learn about it.
My Grandfather kept his Browning until the 1950s/60s when the U.K. gun laws became stricter and then handed it into the police. He retained the leather holster which he had made himself and I still have. Some years ago I had a chance to purchase a U.K. deactivated Browning 1910 similar to what my Grandfather had owned. I jumped at the chance and it now lives in the original holster that my Grandfather made.