In my opinion if you close the bolt on a gun and it fires it has more severe problems than a safety malfunction issue. I think in most cases this happens when people mess around with the trigger and make it too light. When and if this does happen it should not be loaded again and should be taken directly to gunsmith to be looked at. Why would anyone have a gun that does this and keep using it?

And this in not the problem in this particular recall. They are simply saying the safety may or may not work every time, not that the gun is discharging on its own.

I will probably get bashed for this, but I rarely use the safety on any of my guns. I normally don't load a round in the chamber until I am ready to shoot something and I don't put my finger on the trigger until I am ready to fire. In 30 years of owning and shooting various fire arms I have never accidentally discharged one. I have owned too many fire arms that didn't have safeties to rely on them. I will add that I don't sling a rifle with a round in it and walk around, or set a loaded weapon in a corner. If the gun is loaded it is in my hand where I have control of it. If I am not going to have control of it I clear the action in most cases. My exception to this rule is with single shot/single action weapons that have an exposed hammer.

Many won't agree with these practices I'm sure, but then again I see lots of people that think they are being safe doing things that scare the crap out of me. So to each his own I guess. I saw a guy pull a loaded rifle up into a tree once with the muzzle pointed towards him[]. Hey, the safety was on though.

I am in a agreement though, the 710 is a pretty sorry excuse for a bolt action rifle. I would be ashamed of it if I worked at Remington. John Browning is probably looking down from heaven shaking his head in disgust.

Paul