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Beiruty wrote:I do not want to imagine myself at that McDonnald, cause most likely there would be a call for the morgue.

From eating the food?

jimlongley wrote:On the news tonight, the "shooter" says that his gun didn't malfunction, "it just wasn't cocked." and the one of the victims says that the "shooter" pulled the trigger five times because he heard the clicks.

If it wasn't cocked, one has to wonder how it fired outside, and if it was a semi-auto, which the videos show, one has to wonder what all the clicking was, do Glocks do that? Or maybe it was a DA semi-auto.

Cocked probably means that he hadn't chambered a round in the SA. Some SA pistols like Taurus' will let you pull the trigger over and over without 'recocking' the gun. The pistol will click every time. I wonder if he didn't have a round chambered, pulled the trigger several times, then went out and chambered a round, the gun fired, but then didn't for some reason chamber another round and when he went back in it was not firing again? If so, it sounds more and more like divine intervention to me.

BigBangSmallBucks wrote:

jimlongley wrote:Makes me wonder if he had a "nine" with the wrong ammo in it. A 9mm with .380s in it might fire pointed up, while the cartridge might sit far enough forward in the chamber with the gun horizontal, particularly if it had been carried pointed down, for the firing pin to fail to make contact.

I once in my naivety fired a 9mm round out of a .40s&w

We had a student in class that started their CHL renewal qualification course of fire and during the first 5 shots the gun failed to fire. He would rack the slide and the gun would not have a round in the chamber, but it would feed the next one. He stated he had just shot the gun the day before and it had functioned properly. I specifically went and stood close to him when the second round started. When he pulled the trigger I saw a brass-colored glint come out of the barrel and travel about 10 feet. in front of the gun. I stopped him and when the round was complete I took his gun and cleared it. I then asked him why he was "trying to fire 9mm rounds from a .45"? He got a funny look on his face and realized when he pulled the ammo out of the bag for his he and his wife, he had pulled out two boxes of 9mm instead of one 9mm and one .45. They were holding in his magazine and would feed into the chamber, but the firing pin luckily was not striking the primer and was just pushing the whole round out the front of the barrel and shooting it about 10 feet down range. Had the primer detonated on one of those, no telling what they heck would have happened. We allowed him to stop and shoot using the proper ammunition in the next line of shooters. That was as long as we could tell of his mistake to the class as a 'always make sure your ammo matches the gun' lesson learned. That story still gets told in classes.

I kinda like the 'divine intervention' angle.