Suing the deep pockets companies for bad gun handling practices...
That's not what's happening, they are being sued for producing a gun that can fire when it shouldn't.
I went to an older tread (2010) on the S&W forum and took a few minutes to copy and paste some actual examples. Each of these is from a different person, and not gun haters or the liberal media...
"seen it firsthand. hunting, darkthirty am, get out of truck I load the winchester 70 which will open bolt on safety, brother puts round in remington 3006 and closes the bolt, kboom. fortunately he had it resting on his crotch pointed up or I might not be here today. factory trigger. it was the old rem which wouldnt open or close on safe."
"That all being said, has my M700 EVER gone off when I carefully wiped off the safety in a proper manner? Only ONCE . . . in 1996. Yes, it happened as I stood next to my truck, working the bolt to unload the rifle after spending a morning in a deer stand. "
"I bought my first rifle, a Remington 700 ADL in .30-06, in October, 1974. I wanted to deer hunt with friends. The clerk at K-Mart, where I bought it, is a good friend of mine, picked out a perfect one, told me that he had bore-sighted the scope when he mounted it, so it was already "sighted in." I didn't get to shoot it before the opening morning of the hunt. I had studied the owners manual and dry fired it a few times before the hunt. As were were heading off from the camper, I loaded the magazine and closed the bolt, chambering a round. As the bolt locked up, the rifle went off. My right hand was on the bolt handle, my left holding the rifle by the forearm, nothing at all near the trigger. "
"This gun suffered one unintended discharge in the mid-1980's. I had loaded it in the field and it went off upon closing the bolt. The trigger was not touched, no one was injured but a 275 grain Barnes bullet traveling 2800 fps leaves quite a mark on the ground."
"I have owned this model 700 since 1979. Carried it in all kinds of weather, conditions and it is the most accurate rifle in my arsenal. Will consistently shoot 1/2 MOA all day long with hand loads. On Saturday evening, when I started to break stand, I was going to unload the rifle, as I usually do before climbing down. When I pushed off the safety, the gun discharged. My fingers were no where near the trigger, as I was/have been cognizant of the alleged issues with the rifle discharging without the trigger being pulled. "
"A few years I ago. I made the mistake of buying Remington bolt action 223 at Bass Pro. I can not remember the model number but it was not a 700. I did not have it long enough to even enter it in my record books or take a picture of it. I believe it was made in Turkey. It was on sale and had a rebate so I figured hey a cheapo Remington to target shoot. I cleaned it and went to the range. I shot a few rounds and then reloaded. I went to push the bolt forward to load a round and it went off! Scared me to death, thank God it was pointing down range."