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This just doesn't give me a warm-fuzzy...
Wife was shooting my M&P-357 yesterday, and I'm pretty sure that she limp-wristed the shot, but the 9th round in the magazine fed ahead of the extractor, preventing the slide from fully returning to battery... problem is, the disconnector still allowed the striker to be released. The firing pin was able to indent the case just above the primer (right on the edge of the primer hole), if it would have struck the primer, the cartridge would have fired out-of battery and probably injured her hand. The firing pin obviously struck hard enough to ignite the primer if it would have been just a hair farther up.
Is it just me, or does this worry anybody else? None of my other pistols will fire (that far) out of battery... I don't want to invite disaster by firing a cartridge when the slide is not fully locked.
Is this a design flaw? Or, will not everyone's M&P release the striker with the slide held slightly open. My XD certainly won't unless the slide is almost fully locked up.
Wife was shooting my M&P-357 yesterday, and I'm pretty sure that she limp-wristed the shot, but the 9th round in the magazine fed ahead of the extractor, preventing the slide from fully returning to battery... problem is, the disconnector still allowed the striker to be released. The firing pin was able to indent the case just above the primer (right on the edge of the primer hole), if it would have struck the primer, the cartridge would have fired out-of battery and probably injured her hand. The firing pin obviously struck hard enough to ignite the primer if it would have been just a hair farther up.
Is it just me, or does this worry anybody else? None of my other pistols will fire (that far) out of battery... I don't want to invite disaster by firing a cartridge when the slide is not fully locked.
Is this a design flaw? Or, will not everyone's M&P release the striker with the slide held slightly open. My XD certainly won't unless the slide is almost fully locked up.