Why you never trust the safety...

[alucard0822]

I've seen PLENTY of mil-surps that will slam fire, and one Norinco SKS that would mag dump after racking the bolt. All it takes is a little cosmo, a burr or rough machining to get that firing pin to jam forward, and fire, possibly out of battery. Granted, haven't seen it on new commercial guns, but got into the habit of checking the breech face and pin, cleaning it well, and function checking before it's first range trip, then at the range loading only 2 rounds at a time till it seems to run fine. Can't always run to the range to chamber a round, can't always keep the muzzle from sweeping flesh especially when carrying, so it's really important to know your gun works properly, and load in a relatively safe direction.

 

[RepublicanJD]

AAAAANNNNDDD recalled:

http://www.americanhunter.org/artic...peating-arms-recalling-select-3-sxp-shotguns/

 

[PJDiesel]

We had a fairly new A400 Xcel slam fire Tuesday afternoon.

 

[Doctor_M]

Glad that folks are getting the word out... that is some crazy stuff. Hope nobody gets hurt because of it.

 

[Pwilliams1]

That's scary stuff.

 

[Half-cocked]

I was under the impression that all the major U.S. gun manufacturers did 100% live-fire testing of all new firearms... anyone here know the skinny on this?

 

[fred333]

Wasn't Remington sued over one of their rifles that was known to have the same problem?

 

[Oldcarjunkie]

You know all day on my phone this thread kept coming up and in my email it says .. Why you never trust ..... and every time i seen it, I expected it to say.. A Fart .. it gave me a good chuckle when i was bored.

 

[PGTMG]

Wow I hope he was wearing dark pants.

 

[Z_Man]

lessons from this thread.

always point gun at something you want to shoot
first shots on a new firearm should be with one round loaded into the magazine. then proceed to two rounds.

 

[HappyCamper]

I think I see the problem.

Yup, it's a POS Winchester MODERN shotgun.

Edit to correct....

I would take my vintage Model 12 riot gun up against any modern pump gun...