Rich Willbanks said to Scott Mcquilkin
About: Smyrna Glock Ad -Tn
Dated: 02-07-98  18:46hrs * D.A.R.E., Is Life!
 SM>  I've never been aware weapons can fire by themselfs!
 RH> A muzzle-loader using percussion caps might manage it, but you'd have
 RH> to be dumb enough to keep one around loaded first.... Flintlocks could,
 SM>  Curious...I know if a revolver (such as mine) is cocked, it
 SM> will fire  if dropped at such an angle allowing it to.
 RW> Depends on the weapon.  The my dad has one of the old
 RW> S&W Military & Police (model 10?) and it has the firing
 RW> pin right on the hammer.  I have a H&R 22 that has a
 RW> transfer bar that has to be lifted by the trigger
 RW> before the hammer will hit the firing pin.
 Mine is also a S&W .38 Model 10, and is as such, I Purchased it in 1986
 and have never had a problem with it.
 And would you believe that I priced them and found they Only went up
 $40 from what I paid.
 RW> I think if you dropped the H&R from high enough and it
 RW> hit muzzle down the intra might cause it to fire but
 RW> the round would hit what the muzzle was in contact
 RW> with.
 Interesting.
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