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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.
An actual case from the early days of Practical Pistol:
An avid competitor didn't believe that dry firing was harmless to the
pistol and so always put a leather pad between the hammer and the firing
pin stop. The day before a competition he thoroughly serviced the pistol,
did some dry practice and then put the gun away. In the first round of the
competition, he inserted the magazine, dropped the slide and the pistol
went full auto. Fibers of leather had jammed the firing pin sufficiently
forward to detonate the primers.
No malfunction of safety devices took place but there was considerable
changing of trousers at the firing point immediately afterwards and no, it
wasn't me.
Kenneth Pantling
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All guns break eventually if you shoot them enough, even Glocks. I have
seen several Glock slides crack through the serial numbers under the
ejection port. That wouldn't cause an AD though.
You can have firing pins and primers do funny things in all kinds of guns.
Steve.
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