This happened yesterday in a neighborhood near mine. Guy shoots his cousin and kills him at his or their home. Then he goes to a local church, points the gun at the pastor and pulls the trigger. Misfire. A parishioner tackles him before he can clear the misfire and then he's subdued by the pastor and several other congregants.

In all my years of shooting (probably 50K+ rounds) I've never had a failure to fire. The majority of those rounds were put through Glocks and quality firearms, I've never shot a Hi-point, and I don't know what the guy was using but it worked on the previous use moments before.

Police pulled the round and pointed out the hammer strike on the primer to the pastor.

One time, Glock 17, but was a dead round, and happened during quals

Have had some with older surplus, never newer manufacturered rounds.

Never. I’ve not fired anywhere close to 50K rounds but I have fired thousands. I wonder what MACS experience w/this is?

I worked in the armory when I was a Master-at-Arms in the Navy. Then I went to small arms instructor school.

I've fired a lot of rounds through a lot of guns and I do not recall ever having an actual failure to fire. I've had some stovepipes or failure to fully eject, but never a failure to fire.

Sounds like divine intervention.

I have seen one or two in the past, but didn't know how those particular rounds were stored. That said, at the range just yesterday, my wife ejected two good rimfire rounds on the ground. Since these are greased/waxed target rounds I am not inclined to put them back in a target barrel. The range has a "DUDS" box for disposal of loaded/dud rounds. In the box was what appeared to be an unfired .308 round with a large deep round dent in the primer. Again, I do not know the story of that round but even if it was missing powder chances are it would have pushed the bullet out of the case.

I have seen reloaded rounds that took more than one hammer/striker blow to fire. If the primer was not seated properly the first strike just pushes the primer home, the second will usually get it to go off. A weak spring can also cause ignition problems. Even a really dirty chamber too.

Primers are not as sensitive as you might think. I've pushed out live primers from a damaged case to re-use them. Also some firearms like an AR have floating firing pins that will lightly strike the primer enough to show. It happens when you drop the bolt on a full magazine. AR ammunition usually feature a slightly harder primer cup for that reason. SKS and French semiautomatic rifles have that "feature"

Note: Centerfire only, many failures to fire on rimfire rounds, even rotating the case to hit another spot on the rim didn't help in some.

Hi Anthony! Ben a little busy with life and kids and things. Missed the banter, thought I'd come in and hang out again. How are things in your world?

Lots of changes since we last chewed the fat. Need to catch up for sure.

I had a FTF once. It was a WW 2 Japanese marines BILT action rifle. Gave it to my brother. Its firing pin was worn down and needed a new one custom machined.

Yes,
In my SKS...
Chinese chrome plated inside barrel...
The "floating firing pin" as mentioned above was the culprit...
I would slam load it And the firing pin left big indentations on unfired rounds...it would also shoot two or three rounds off sometimes...

Took it to an awesome VIETNAM VETERAN GUNSMITH...HE FIELD STRIP THAT ENTIRE THING IN LIKE 30-40 SECONDS...
HE FILED DOWN THE FIRING PIN LIKE SEVERAL "ONE HUNDRETHS" WITH A SPECIAL MACHINIST TOOL...WORKS LIKE A CHARM NOW....x.9

Had one out of several thousand rounds. I blame the round. My CZ loves me and wouldn't hurt me like that

Hehe…

"Act of God"
& a HI-POINT
& a duece

NOT SURE WHICH ONE

AT LEAST HE DIDNT HOLD THE GUN SIDEWAYS

you made me groan...which is good.

Actually helpful to remain on target if you're shooting one handed, with no support. Especially weak hand.

Example: my beretta ejects to the right. If I hold it in my left hand, unsupported by the right, the recoil would push my entire hand/arm off to the left. If I hold it sideways it merely turns my wrist to the left and doesn't take me far off target.

You're welcome.

Awesome ghetto speak !!!!