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- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: AMT backup advice/instructions needed
- Message-ID: <9301261621.AA09679@zippy.cs.UMD.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:35:57 GMT
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- In <9301251801.AA00398@stortek.com> Bill Vojak states:
-
- | Well, as I've posted before. I owned a AMT automag several years
- | ago. The first day I owned it, it blew up in my hand when the
- | slide crushed a live round instead of chambering it. The surgery
- | on my "trigger finger" cost $1000+. It also cost AMT some $$ to
- | settle with me. . .
-
- What did the discovery process reveal? Was it a freak accident? Bad
- engineering? Bad execution? Sloppy tolerances? A relative of mine
- happened to meet the designer of the rotary bolt of the Automag; this
- was some years after the demise of the Automag [The designer had moved
- on to Hughes Aircraft...]
-
- |To this day, (5+ years later), I still only
- | have 60-70% strength/feeling in my right trigger finger. I also
- | couldn't shoot a semi-auto for over a year after the accident because
- | of the flinch that I developed because of it. Maybe that's why
- | I now still prefer revolvers over semi-autos.
-
- How did the Automag fail so as to cause this damage?
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