With floating firing pins, how likely is it for that firing pin to build more inertia in a drop than it has during chambering a round? In other words, if a rifle isn’t slamfiring and doubling, I don’t think a reasonable drop is likely to cause an unintentional discharge.Unless the trigger mechanism itself is not “drop safe”. But I don’t truly know the answer here, just brainstorming out loud.
I can’t say “it can’t happen” because I’m no engineer. However, I can say that I’ve never seen it happen, and I’ve seen some rifles take a spill. But maybe its more likely with civilian ammo.
Obviously someone needs to chamber a blank and drop a rifle off a roof a few times. But I bet its already been done.
RLTW
Former Action Guy
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