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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Mini 14 fires when not in battery
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.223752.4842@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 14:28:14 GMT
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: The Instrumentality
- Lines: 18
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Nov14.135444.24071@walter.bellcore.com> bellcore!torque.bae.bellcore.com!sjs@uunet.UU.NET (Stephen Szymanski) writes:
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- As a final followup to this...I've checked it out, and am satisfied that
- the Mini 14 cannot be fired unless the bolt is fully closed (except if it's
- broken). The reason for this is that the bolt rotates to lock up; the
- firing pin is fixed in the bolt in such a way that it cannot move forward
- until the bolt has been turned into the fully locked position. In
- distinction to most semi-auto handguns, the hammer will go down when the
- bolt is not in battery--but the firing pin will not move.
-
- The manual also states that this cannot happen.
-
- Many thanks to the people who corresponded with me about this.
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