Perhaps this is the thread you are talking about:gemini wrote:as almost anything is possible, I also believe that a mechanically sound 1911, with or without the FP safety, improbable to discharge from a drop of aprox. 4'. I read of the RIA discharge on another forum. The owner had a FP spring that was too short/or too weak.Liberty wrote:This is not true, 1911s without a firing pin block can potentially go bang when dropped. This includes the original design 1911s, and There was a thread about a Rock Island Armory 1911 discharging in this forumdicion wrote: Then again, if it was a 1911 instead of some piece of BT, it would require both the trigger AND the grip safety to be pressed, in opposite directions of eachother, to fire, not to mention the thumb safety...
I'm not sayin'.. I'm just sayin.
If you can find other instances of 1911's going off from short drops, whether directly on the muzzle or otherwise please post a link or reference to that info. With or without FP safetys. Thanks in advance.
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It was an RIA gun, dropped from waist level on the muzzle onto a hard floor. Before this incident, we'd had discussions about this very issue and the solution is a simple one: replace the stock components with a light firing pin and heavy firing pin spring. The OP did just that after the incident. Personally, I prefer this solution to the mechanical FP safety that is standard on 1911s made by other manufacturers, due to the accounts of failure directly related to the firing pin safety system that have been told here and elsewhere.