Back home in my little town we had a particular officer who blowed the left mirror off his patrol car with a wheel gun...then again with a S&W auto when the dept went auto 9mm.....then once again with a .40 blowing the rear view mirror off and shooting through a gas station canopy.
I am with BartNoir till I see more details...until then I will speculate Urban Myth. SW website has no info regarding this. PLUS!
The Model 4003 was built from 1991-1993, and the Model 4004, a blued version of the 4003.
This from
www.pmulcahy.com very informative site by the way.....
With the above thought...maybe it is time to replace those 4003's? hmmm 15 years in service???
and oh! back to the top of this post....can we say...oops!...oops!....oops!
I...thought it was unloaded...I...I....thought the safety was on....I ...I.... I...
Ok...im an idiot...
Also when choosing to decock a firearm with this ability your finger should never be on the trigger. And there has been actual instances where a person went to decock the firearm and had there finger on the trigger, and atually pulled the trigger before the decocker had been engaged..these people are no good at multi-tasking with a loaded firearm.
As for the 39 mentioned above.. I would not believe it if I had been there. recoil and a limp wrist can presume to be a full auto situation, when it is actually just a suprise from improper firearm handling. I have had to many of these guns, along with Taurus, Baretta , Colt and the list goes on....
I have never had, seen, or heard of a decocker failure (until now)AN......and also I never decock with a round in the chamber. Its intended use is EMPTY mag...close slide ...decock firearm.
If you have a live round in chamber...O What's this...Oh! its..its a safety!
And of course the News reported it first!