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I hear what you are saying about equipment failures and I
accept that all mechanical devices are falible and go wrong
some times. The problem I have with Firearms going wrong
and causing accidental discharges is that in most of them it
would take an awful lot of safety systems to malfuction all at
the same time to cause this. I'm not a great expert on Glocks
but look at a 1911 instead. To cause an unintended discharge
you would have to have a fault that has the effect of disabling
the grip safety and manual safety if it was applied. It would
have to somehow get round the fact that if the trigger is not
pressed and miss the intercept notch in the hammer base.
Isn't there also something that blocks the firing pin as well on
the newer ones? Not to mention a faulty sear to get the
hammer in motion in the first place. This is a lot of things to
have to defeat and I would suggest that a Gun in such crap
condition should have been noticed long before it got that bad.
Having said all that, I bet that Plod can't come up with a good
reason why this particular incident happened.
J.
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1911s were quite prone to ADs until they put the firing pin
safety in - or at least that's the myth.
Steve.
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