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Saving grace in this story is muzzle dscipline. I was firing different guns on the range when the P-38 jammed with the slide disengaged about 1/2 inch. Could barely see the brass, and could not tell if it was a round being fed aor ejected. Tried to eject it but the slide would not move, open or close. Left it along until I returned home and cleaned the other pistols and put them in the safe. Safe is located in my Basement. I tried to tap the slide fore and back ...nothing moved, I was stadning side ways to my safe with the gun pointed in that direction, I unsrewed the hand guards/grips to expose the frame and then pushed the screwdriver up into the mag well to see if I could pry it loose somehow.and "BANG. The slide shot foreward and fired a round into the edge of my safe. Put a 1/2 in depression beside te door of the safe. no penetration ,just a deep dent. Two good things barrel pointed away from harm and the roung was a hollow point which totally vaporized. (special Note: don't shoot hollow points in P-38s, pretty picky gun likes parabellum.