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As others have explained, different pistols have different safety mechanisms. Some older designs are not as robust, that's where you see some being described as "drop safe" and others as not being "drop safe"
In general, you want to have a primary safety that prevents the trigger from accidentally being pulled, and then a series of secondary mechanisms that prevent the firing pin from accidentally hitting the cartridge, even if the trigger hasn't been pulled (i.e. the gun is dropped)