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- Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:08 pm
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: Pilot's gun discharges on US Airways flight
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Re: Pilot's gun discharges on US Airways flight
It just irks me that these incidents are always reported as "the gun just went off accidently." I've sent over a half-million rounds downrange over my lifetime and I can literally count on one hand the number of firearms I've seen discharge without someone putting their booger hook in contact with the bang switch. Two incidents were mechanical failures and the remaining incidents involved automatic weapons that fired from a closed bolt and got hot enough to cook-off rounds in their chambers. Time will tell what the damage is but the report will likely be another of those times the "experts" point out that if trained "professionals" have accidents, surely us lowly civilian idiots can't be trusted with firearms.