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Imagine this.
You are a 15 year military veteran, now serving in the National Guard. You have a trusted 20 year old AR-15 and allow a neighbor to try it out. You have instructed him on your gun’s semi-auto operations and how to handle it.
Your neighbor takes the gun to a local range and fires off 100-200 rounds before the gun chugs out three shots and jams. He clears the gun and tries again with the same results.
Now, I don’t know about you, but anytime I use something which suddenly operates in a way different from the way it was designed, I call that a mal-function. An AR-15 is a semi-auto rifle made by various companies in the US. Older models are known to mal-function in this manner. This malfunction even has a name. It’s called “slamfire.” Wikipedia describes it this way,
“A slamfire is a premature, unintended discharge of a firearm that occurs as a round is being loaded into the chamber.”
This can occur in older AR-15s with a worn sear or which are loaded with “soft-primered” commercial ammo. This is NOT a normal function for which the AR-15 was designed.
It reminds me of years back when I had an old car. On a cross-country trip it suddenly spewed out black smoke. The transmission was shot. This car was not a willful attempt at air pollution. It was a car with a bad “tranny.”
David Olofson’s AR-15 was a malfunctioning rifle. The range where it was being fired has a no full-auto rule so the sound of this repeat firing attracted attention. It attracted more attention than it deserved.
We have become a country of over-reacting panic. Now what?
Wisconsin is an “open carry” state, but you don’t want to try it! The mere mention of the word gun makes you vulnerable to legal attention! This must be changed!
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