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Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say (www.ksat.com)

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A man taking his trash to an apartment dumpster was shot and killed after he slipped while walking and the gun he was carrying went off accidentally, according to San Antonio police.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

For all the gun owners in the thread, GarandThumb recently did a video (youtube gun guy) where he drop tested several handguns and a couple of them actually did go off. As many of you are saying, firearms shouldn't go off without the trigger being pulled and that's for sure the case a large majority of the time.

Frustratingly the article doesn't mention anything about the make, model or condition of the firearm here. It's totally possible it went off just from being dropped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

1911 and 2011 are not drop safe as they do not mitigate the firing pin carrying forward and striking the primer when the gun is dropped. Known issue for a long time with the design of the 1911 and was addressed in the manual of arms. The failure is when the crown of the barrel strikes first. It was deemed acceptable for use as the round was most likely to be discharged when the barrel was pointed at the ground.

Most firearms designed after 1940 are drop safe. The exceptions are the ones that follow the flawed design of the 1911

The sidearm that replaced the 1911 in military service the Beretta 92 was, some say, primarily selected as it was hammer fired and drop safe so as to stay as close to the then current manual of arms and sidearm doctrine.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

He almost certainly tested the very few modern handguns known to have that problem, for which they rightly got a lot of hate. You'd have to link the specific video, I don't watch GT.