You know, I have on occasion taken off my stiff uncomfortable belt and my gun and stuffed the end of my belt through the loops on the holster to sort of keep all my stuff contained. He doesn't have to go through every step as to WHY he did what he did does He?
That's very atypical behavior, and yes, for those of us who know the gun and carry daily, it would just about take video footage of the gun doing what is alleged to convince. Again, even if the unlikely conditions were present to create the trajectory, the odds of a defective gun going off when it is completely static on a table after having been carried around all day and then placed on that table are vanishingly minuscule. Defective guns can fire without the trigger being touched, but it is incredibly rare for it to happen when the gun is just sitting there, especially a DAO that does not have a cocked hammer which could,
maybe, fall from a part failure at rest.
Here's my thoughts for those that think the son's story doesn't pass the smell test...why go through so much conspiracy for an ND?
If I shot a hole through my table and didn't want to tell my wife the truth, I would fabricate a story then sell the gun off to a LGS and be done with it. No need to go through the manufacturer. If my wife knew I shot a hole through the table, and I didn't want to tell my dad...i just wouldnt tell my dad, right?
If there wasn't an issue with the gun and i didn't want to fess up to being a bonehead, there 20 different stories I could come up with that wouldn't require me to go to the trouble of sending the gun off.
Embarrassment the reason, blaming the gun the inevitable scapegoat. The particulars of the story one concocts to exonerate themselves in an instance of ND from handling are rather inconsequential, and usually far fetched, as is the case here.
Virtually every case of a true AD involved a broken part or defective mechanism, and what they just about all have in common is that they happen during loading, when a safety is disengaged, or when the gun is dropped or otherwise jarred.
I'm with the few that give the OP the benefit of the doubt. Why lie to your father about something like this? AND send the weapons to be checked out if it was a AD.
Embarrassment, and to lend credence to the story, respectively.
I can't count how many vehicles I've had brought to me after a teenager got in a fender bender and claimed the brakes or steering malfunctioned. Wanna hazard a guess at the percentage that actually had a problem? I'll give you a hint: More than one synonymous pronoun for the number that start with Z.
in this case the gun was returned fixed,with an official apology and free vouchers. There was obviously a defect in the gun. And the manufacturer admits to it.
I didn't see anything resembling an admission of responsibility. What I see is a manufacturer who puts out huge volumes of economy handguns, which already makes them a target for frivolous lawsuits, doing whatever they can to mitigate that possibility. A "The gun didn't really have a problem, but we erred on the side of caution and replaced it, plus extras to defray inconveniences" deal.
You can say there's no way it was possible it went off on it's own at that angle.
That's just the icing on the cake for an already unlikely scenario. If the bullet hole were in a wall or cabinet at table height and a relatively level trajectory, it would be fairly believable, since a gun laid down would have such a trajectory, and since that's not a height and angle at which a handgun would typically be held under any normal circumstances. Downward angle when in a concealement holster on said table? Sorry, not buying.
