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I am looking for some advise to help my old partner fix his older Sigma SW40c pistol. We were doing some shooting today and his pistol had alot of light primer strikes. This pistol was his issued duty weapon when he worked for a different department. He bought the gun when they went to glocks, and was issued a glock when he started at my department. He said that even then it had an occasional light strikes and the striker spring was replaced and the gun became a safe queen, since he just carried his duty weapon.
A few years ago he fell ill with a genetic spinal illness and is wheel chair bound. He had to quit and he cannot work. Since money is tight he cannot afford an expensive carry peice, so he has been carrying his late father's colt 1911. This 1911 has an extreamly high round count, and has shot out two barrels. Last year it got to the point that it was just too unreliaible and funds were too tight to get it reworked. We got the Sigma out and gave it a really good cleaning, and replaced the striker spring just in case. When we took it to the range last year and it ran 100% without a malfunction. We try to shoot every few months, but due to his health it has been a long time.
Today the gun failed to fire more times than it would. This was with different ammo and trying the rounds several times. The rounds that failed, fired in my g27. We cleaned the gun good and made sure the striker channel was clean. We still had the same problem. The striker spring is about a year old with only a few hundred rounds on it. He said that it was the factory strength spring. He is unwilling to let me get him a new gun even if I were to loan him the money. I have offered to loan him one of my guns, but he wont do that either. I really need some help, because I worry about his safety and his family's, with him carrying a gun that may not work. In his condition he cannot fight off an attack. Sorry for the long post.
A few years ago he fell ill with a genetic spinal illness and is wheel chair bound. He had to quit and he cannot work. Since money is tight he cannot afford an expensive carry peice, so he has been carrying his late father's colt 1911. This 1911 has an extreamly high round count, and has shot out two barrels. Last year it got to the point that it was just too unreliaible and funds were too tight to get it reworked. We got the Sigma out and gave it a really good cleaning, and replaced the striker spring just in case. When we took it to the range last year and it ran 100% without a malfunction. We try to shoot every few months, but due to his health it has been a long time.
Today the gun failed to fire more times than it would. This was with different ammo and trying the rounds several times. The rounds that failed, fired in my g27. We cleaned the gun good and made sure the striker channel was clean. We still had the same problem. The striker spring is about a year old with only a few hundred rounds on it. He said that it was the factory strength spring. He is unwilling to let me get him a new gun even if I were to loan him the money. I have offered to loan him one of my guns, but he wont do that either. I really need some help, because I worry about his safety and his family's, with him carrying a gun that may not work. In his condition he cannot fight off an attack. Sorry for the long post.
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