Originally Posted by
dyna-mike
One thing I think we need to remind ourselves (and also rob pincus) is that self defense is not an extended gun battle. if the gun starts to malfunction after 400+ rds. is that a disquailfer?...
The thing is that we can't predict when an unreliable gun will malfunction.
Originally Posted by
jblackfish
...most of us have a number of rounds, sometimes approximate, which we require our CCW weapon to execute without malfunction BEFORE we are willing to give the OK to that weapon for carry (or to simply call it "reliable.")...
That's true. Any gun can malfunction eventually. I'm sure going to have a lot more confidence in a gun that has averaged one malfunction is 5,000 rounds over a period of time than a gun that has averaged one malfunction in 400 rounds.
In either case, I can't predict when a malfunction will come. But with a 1-in-5,000 rate I'd have more reason to expect the gun to fire the next time I pull the trigger compared to a 1-in-400 malfunction rate.
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