Why wasn't the safety on? Unless the safety was broken, the gun should not have discharged at all - even if it was in a bag or box with other objects. I own an H&K .40. That safety switch takes a very positive movement to be engaged/disengaged.LarryH wrote:I haven't been following the details of the program. If the gun was not kept in a separate lock box, but in the pilot's flight case, it's quite possible that some other object in the case made its way (under the influence of vibration or g-forces) inside the trigger guard and placed enough force on the trigger to cause the "bang".
It's not always the booger hook that presses the bang switch.
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- Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:59 pm
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