Originally Posted by
Brett Kastl
That's pretty much what I first posted, so we agree on that. I still don't see how taking it off safe & pulling the trigger creates an unintended discharge. The term malfunction may apply, if some parts aren't doing what they're supposed to do when used properly, but if you don't use the selector, trigger, charging handle, forward assist, or mag release in the manner they were designed, that's operator error. Take away the operator error and you have no malfunction in this case, or so it would seem. Maybe some parts are out of spec & defective, but to me this is like figuring out how to throw an AR pattern weapon hard enough to make the firing pin hit the primer, causing it to fire, and saying it's a malfunction.
Can someone hold their thumb on the forward assist while firing and declare it to be a faulty weapon because it doesn't cycle?