I will STRONGLY recommend you NOT carry any Tokarev with a chambered round whether it has a safety or not.
With the only exception possibly being the Yugoslavian made guns with the Yugoslavian retro fitted safety lever behind the grip, NONE of the import safeties block the hammer/sear/firing pin contact.
Not sure if the Yugoslavian does as I have not had the opportunity to inspect one of these yet but this safety was incorporated by the Yugoslavian authorities on issue pistols and it is one of the best designs out there from what I have gathered so far, however, NONE of the Tokarevs incorporate a firing pin lock, of this I am certain, not the commercial imports in all their variations, not even the Yugoslavian made version..
The rear mounted safety on my Chinese Tokarev had a nasty habit of engaging during the slide cycle which will stop the gun cold and I believe it contributed to the eventual breakage of the disconnector on my gun.
Drop any of these guns and chances are it will fire if the half cock safety notch shears and Tokarevs were made as combat pistols so the quality of the half cock notch may be dubious enough to make this a very real possibility.
Because there is no firing pin lock safety, carrying these pistols chamber loaded and the hammer at rest or set at half cock is even more dangerous to the shooter and bystanders.
The Tokarev has always been intended to be carried chamber empty and cycled when shooting was immediately anticipated.
The import safeties do nothing but provide a false sense of security.
This is how my pistol looked with the safety in place.
This safety bound up on the magazines making them very difficult to remove and interfered with the trigger making reset a sometimes it will and sometimes it won't proposition, removing the safety solved those issues.
The slide stop was altered to clear the safety lever by milling and was apparently bent so the gun would not reliably lock back on the last shot and it also battered up the slide stop notch on the slide proper.
Recutting the stop notch and replacing the slide stop with an unaltered Chinese made version cured that issue.
The gun is now 100% reliable and quite suprisingly accurate without the goofy safety in place.
It is now one of my favorite pleasure shooting pistols. and to think, I almost dumped it as a frustrating, not worth the trouble, dog before I got rid of the keep me oh so safe safety.
Tokarevs never had a safety, adding one does not make the gun any "safer" and it certainly does not improve the reliability of what is one of the most reliable semi auto handguns ever made, in fact, these safeties hinder the guns with the only exception being that Yugo M57 safety and I believe that safety was added to allow the gun to be carried cocked and locked condition one giving the loaded handgun ten rounds immediately available, M57s have nine round magazines as opposed to the regular TT33 payload of eight in the magazine, it certainly didn't make the gun much if any safer, but it did allow a larger payload and faster immediate operation of the pistol.
The import safeties are, in my most humble opinion, a feel good abomination and the only good they serve is to allow the guns to be imported into the US bypassing the overcomplicated requirements demanded by an ill informed governing body.
While not perfect, and really, what is?,,
The unaltered Tokarev is a far better pistol than many people may realize.