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Is there a definitive answer to this question?
or os the jury still out?
or os the jury still out?
No, it can't!Yes, yes it can.
Not when they are mechanically retracted and held back short of the bolt-face by the bolt carrier as they are in the AR-15 design.This is a problem inherent to free-floating firing pins without sprung springs.
It's not so much that, more that the bolt itself moves forward when unlocked and back when locked (edit: ...or did I get that backwards? Now I'm confused). The bolt does the moving, in reference to the bolt carrier, not the pin.All right. I was not aware that the AR's bolt actually pulled the firing pin back.