** whoops, I guess this should be in autoloaders...
I was wondering what other people opinions were on firing pin safeties on a 1911 style pistol.
The pre-series 80 Colts, for example, do not have any firing pin safety, and this thread got me thinking on it.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=477306
To be fair, I know that the situation is different. For a gun that has a floating firing pin, dropping it on the hammer would not cause an AD.
BUT! What if the gun in this article were a 1911 without a firing pin safety. It falls out of the car muzzle down on hard pavement, causing it to fire via firing pin inertia. Shot goes into the ground, but this sends the gun spinning upwards while cycling the action. Then it lands pointing up. The gun gets jarred hard enough to loose the sear, and it fires a second time, pointing upwards. Theoretically, I don't see how it could be impossible. But does anyone know of any documented cases of a gun firing TWICE when dropped?
I heard that in government testing, it was found that a 1911 without a firing pin safety could fire when dropped from a height as little as 3 feet! I am curious if this distance is the height that can cause an uncocked gun to fire due to firing pin inertia, or whether it's the height that can cause the sear to trip on a cocked gun?
I was wondering what other people opinions were on firing pin safeties on a 1911 style pistol.
The pre-series 80 Colts, for example, do not have any firing pin safety, and this thread got me thinking on it.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=477306
To be fair, I know that the situation is different. For a gun that has a floating firing pin, dropping it on the hammer would not cause an AD.
BUT! What if the gun in this article were a 1911 without a firing pin safety. It falls out of the car muzzle down on hard pavement, causing it to fire via firing pin inertia. Shot goes into the ground, but this sends the gun spinning upwards while cycling the action. Then it lands pointing up. The gun gets jarred hard enough to loose the sear, and it fires a second time, pointing upwards. Theoretically, I don't see how it could be impossible. But does anyone know of any documented cases of a gun firing TWICE when dropped?
I heard that in government testing, it was found that a 1911 without a firing pin safety could fire when dropped from a height as little as 3 feet! I am curious if this distance is the height that can cause an uncocked gun to fire due to firing pin inertia, or whether it's the height that can cause the sear to trip on a cocked gun?