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at about 5 am this morning I woke to my alarm, the smell of smoke, and ringing in my ears . It took me a bit to get my bearings, and i started trying to figure out why i woke up, why my ears were ringing, and why there was smoke near me. I then realized that the smoke was actually burnt gunpowder. i checked my pistol, and it had been fired! all i could figure was that the gun had fired all on its own somehow. I immediately cleared the chamber and field stripped the gun to make sure it could not fire again. i checked to see where the bullet went, and thank God I had it pointed into the corner of an outside wall (common practice, but still). it went harmlessly into the ground. I found the spent shell (still warm) and looked at the primer. it had a firing pin strike, but also had a funny looking defect. there was a raised section of metal shaped somewhat like a teardrop, with the firing pin strike right in the middle of the fat end. I looked at the slide face where hole for the pin is. there is the exact same shape imdented around that hole... it looks like the maybe the primer wasn't seated fully and was crimped by the slide closing. is there any way any f this could simply go off by itself, after several hours of sitting there?
The only other conclusion i can come up with is that i reached to turn off my alarm and somehow grabbed the pistol. this seems unlikely though, because i store the gun loaded two shelves lower than the alarm clock for home defense. it's where I can get to it quickly, but, i thought, wouldn't be able to advertently grab, or even touch it... also, i woke up, and the gun had already been fired. I usually remember turning off the alarm clock, so I would have been awake enough, i think to realize immediately what happened..
Needless to say this all scared the crap out of me, and now i can't hear very well out of my left ear...
any ideas what happened?
The only other conclusion i can come up with is that i reached to turn off my alarm and somehow grabbed the pistol. this seems unlikely though, because i store the gun loaded two shelves lower than the alarm clock for home defense. it's where I can get to it quickly, but, i thought, wouldn't be able to advertently grab, or even touch it... also, i woke up, and the gun had already been fired. I usually remember turning off the alarm clock, so I would have been awake enough, i think to realize immediately what happened..
Needless to say this all scared the crap out of me, and now i can't hear very well out of my left ear...
any ideas what happened?