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Heat treated will be safer
All other things being equal, and assuming the heat treat increases the material strength. What actually happens in most cases is that manufacturers exploit a higher strength alloy composition or temper to reduce the amount of material, as everybody likes light weight bars until they break.
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Heat treated will be safer (according to Nitto anyway), theirs come with a red band to indicate this.