I have a coworker named Mike. Mike owns a couple handguns, practices about once a month.
This morning Mike came to me at work visibly shaken. He lives alone, and last night he heard a sound upstairs. While he wasn't sure it was anything, he grabbed his pistol (a stainless 9mm Smith I wasn't familiar with) and went upstairs to check it out.
When he reached his back patio, he saw his sliding glass door jimmied open, with three black males just entering his home. They were carrying empty trash bags for loot. He racked his slide (stored full mag empty chamber) and pointed at the lead burglar, puling the trigger.
Click. Jam. Mike was resourceful. He yelled, "Get the **** out before I start killing people!" None of them noticed his gun was jammed, and they departed post haste. On his back porch he found a big raw steak -- a plan for distracting his dog.
He asked me to figure out why his gun was jammed. Now, I own a .45 and a .380. The solution wasn't immediately obvious to me, but I suggested his ammo was probably out of spec. He argued that couldn't be! He'd fired this ammo many times before. Why, this Mak 9mm ammo was top grade hollowpoints!
His top two rounds were makarov. The rest of the mag was largo. Don't ask me why he didn't notice the rounds he put in his mag were completely different lengths, but there you go. The stamp around the primer said 9mm on every round, so why not?
This morning Mike came to me at work visibly shaken. He lives alone, and last night he heard a sound upstairs. While he wasn't sure it was anything, he grabbed his pistol (a stainless 9mm Smith I wasn't familiar with) and went upstairs to check it out.
When he reached his back patio, he saw his sliding glass door jimmied open, with three black males just entering his home. They were carrying empty trash bags for loot. He racked his slide (stored full mag empty chamber) and pointed at the lead burglar, puling the trigger.
Click. Jam. Mike was resourceful. He yelled, "Get the **** out before I start killing people!" None of them noticed his gun was jammed, and they departed post haste. On his back porch he found a big raw steak -- a plan for distracting his dog.
He asked me to figure out why his gun was jammed. Now, I own a .45 and a .380. The solution wasn't immediately obvious to me, but I suggested his ammo was probably out of spec. He argued that couldn't be! He'd fired this ammo many times before. Why, this Mak 9mm ammo was top grade hollowpoints!
His top two rounds were makarov. The rest of the mag was largo. Don't ask me why he didn't notice the rounds he put in his mag were completely different lengths, but there you go. The stamp around the primer said 9mm on every round, so why not?