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- From: micjrs@mica.mic.ki.se (Richard Soderberg, MD.)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Mini 14 fires when not in battery
- Message-ID: <micjrs.2.721907521@mica.mic.ki.se>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:46:13 GMT
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- This posting has nothing to do with the Mini 14 in particular but
- rather with the effects of guns firing without the mechanism being properly
- locked.Some 5-10 years ago there were reports in the Swedish hunting press
- concerning an accident where the little ring on the firing pin used to
- engage the rest of the trigger mechanism slipped. The guy holding the gun
- was in the process of closing the bolt but unfortenately not completed the
- operation. The gun fired, the bolt flew out backwards almost tearing off
- his thumb and continued on into his upper arm fracturing the humerus ( the
- bone above the elbow). This is another good reason to be very careful in
- case of a misfire. (A friend of mine in the "Coastal Artillery" has
- witnessed a similar accident involving an AA-gun (shudder!), no
- fatalities but one soldier was scalped and had both of his hands blasted
- away)
- /RS
- Richard Soderberg, MD
- Systems dpt.
- MIC-KIBIC, Karolinska institutet
- PO Box 602 01
- S-104 01 Stockholm
- Sweden
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- Talk Phone : +46 8 728 80 00
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- E-mail : micjrs@mica.mic.ki.se
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