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Soccerdad1995 wrote: I have heard of some ranges where they ask you to get a RO to clear any issues, but the indoor ranges I go to in Houston (Boyert and Memorial Shooting Center) allow you to clear your own issues.

Do you actually mean that if your gun had a ftf or fte they expect you to set it down and go find a RO to clear it??

I absolutely believe a round or mag could fail. (I've had a factory dud before) The correct first response is still a tap, rack, bang (I also agree with others it should be tap, rack, assess)

ETA:
Crash- I hope you didn't take any of that personally, I should have pointed out that I was talking about the proverbial "you" as in- we all.

The original scenario said nothing about having proven your carry gear, which does make a difference around here... since [sadly] there are lots of people who buy a gun and immediately carry it or make it a night stand gun, without proving or ever having fired it.

Crash wrote:OlBill,
However, I've owned 12 semi-autos and fired quite a few others and most of the FTF I've had were because my gun didn't "like" a particular type of ammo. Not that the ammo was bad, it just wasn't compatible with the gun I was using. Also, I had a number of failures with two different .380s because of faulty factory magazines.

Crash

You could what if it to death... but for 98% of the situations T, R, B is correct.

You should have vetted carry ammo and mags long before carrying it... but in those cases the second factory mag with the 5-6 more rounds of the same factory ammo wouldn't fix the issue either so the initial tap, rack, bang would be much faster to hope for a next round miracle.

More simply put: If you are carrying faulty mags with ammo thats not compatible, then you are screwed from the get go and the lack of proving your carry gear is what killed you.