We warn young shooters about the issues with frontier-era revolvers and carbines, but you can see the information bounce off because they haven't been raised with those guns and seen the damage done.
Yup.
A Thirty Eight is loud without muffs.
I may want to blame the hornets, but it was I that could not count to five.
I've never seen a YellowJacket so close as when they were under my glasses!
I was stung fifteen times, luckily not by the last shot in the cylinder, when I flung my muffs and glasses off...
Blue lips and an Epipen. Good times.
I can even still hear it in my left ear!
Like crickets all the time...
Notice how U.D.'s only happen when humans are around?
Good Lord...I got two paragraphs into this and wished it was rather written by Stephenie Meyer.
They said they undertook a MASSIVE STUDY, and then went on to say they read a lot of news articles.
I don't know about you guys, but this doesn't lend a lot of credibility to their efforts when I know I've read plenty of news articles that referred to shotguns as AR-15s, a couple beat up rifles and a box or two of ammunition as an arsenal, and a picture of an unfired cartridge as a bullet dug out of a wall.
Regardless, ALL negligent discharges are, by definition, the fault of the person handling the firearm. "Culpable carelessness."
An accidental discharge, however, is not the same, though some may think so and it might, at first glance anyway, be difficult to understand the difference.
That said... there may indeed be some correlation between makes/models and inadvertent discharges, accidental or negligent. But the overriding common factor in NDs will always be personnel issues, not the gun.
Some firearm designs may lend themselves more readily to an inadvertent discharge... but then, the operator of the firearm is responsible for knowing and understanding the limitations, regardless.
We could bounce this back and forth ad infinitum while stressing one opinion or another...and I'll say right now, I'm sure a lot of points will be posted that I'll readily concede to on this.
But in the end, a negligent discharge is the fault of the operator, not the gun.
Agree with the study, do not agree with the last line. If you had said 98 percent is the fault of the operator....
Remember the Taurus PT111 recall?
Been other cases but this one stands out cause I have one, have not touched it in years and never will load it.
https://www.grandviewoutdoors.com/g...9-million-settlement-in-defective-pistol-case
I've seen a revolver go off when bumped off the table at a gun range. No idea whether is was hammer down on a live round or otherwise, however the owner swore the hammer wasn't cocked. Thankfully the bullet went generally down range. Speaking of ranges, everyone one I've every been to has a few to a lot of holes in the ceilings above the benches -those were probably not intentional. Only 1 ND in my life, scared me terribly, was a bad 22LR round stuck in the chamber. Part of the rim was pushed in so the extractor would not hook on it. I followed the usual open/close the bolt a few times to confirm empty then closed and pulled the trigger. Thankfully was pointing in a safe direction. Never assume anything is empty without looking in the chamber! Since then all guns are stored with action open and use chamber flags at the range when we call cold.most stories I hear are semi-auto pistols .. people making mistakes unloading and dropping the hammer on a live round. it would be overtly difficult to make the same error with a revolver IMHO