esxmarkc wrote:Well in an attempt to get this train back on the rails I will offer this;
As an engineer and somewhat of a statistician I can say that there are very few things in this world that are truly impossible. Many things are EXTREMELY improbable. Nonetheless, even at odds over 15 million to one someone still manages to win the Texas lottery about every couple weeks on average.
So is it possible that your friend was the big looser in the slam-fire lottery? Given the multitudes of handguns around the state of Texas that are charged every week it is certainly possible even with incredibly steep odds.
But condider this: Most all Sigs are hammer fired as opposed to striker fired (not all, but most models I am familiar with) and, most Sig models have a firing pin block safety system. Boiling this down:
A. You must have the trigger pulled in order for the firing pin to have access to the primer even if the hammer somehow releases foward on it's own the firing pin won't see the back of the primer. Many Sigs have hammer decocking levers as testament to this.
B. If the firing pin were frozen foward of the bock and protruding, the inertia of the slide would have to be sufficient even after stripping a cartridge to provide the force required to fire. AND if this were the case then the weapon would likely have continued to slam fire until it was empty and you could still find the pin in it's forward position.
So my answer is that depending on the model of the Sig I would have to say it is VERY improbable although not impossible, it is VERY, VERY improbable.
Tell your buddy to go buy a lottery ticket before wednesday and maybe his week will brighten up. Tell him to get well soon and that sometimes the most valuable lessons come with the nastiest ego bruises and physicial scars. We'd all like to think that "this could never happen to me" but alas we are all human and all capable of making errors. Maybe he made only one nasty error when his weapon was pointed at him as he dropped the slide, maybe he made two with his finger on the trigger. We will never really know.
We all make mistakes. We do our best not to but it does happen - even to the best of us.
Great post.