That is a model 700, the recall in question in this post is the model 710 and in the recall notice it states nothing to the effedt that the gun is discharging on it's own. Simply that the safety is not returning to a safe position when you flip the lever. Which means that if the trigger is pulled it will fire, not that it will fire on its own or when the safety is engaged or disengaged.

It sounds to me like Remington doesn't have a very good track record with safety issues. Like I said, I have heard of guns doing this, but normally it is a trigger problem, not a safety switch problem. The majority of the time when I see it you cycle the bolt to load a round and the firing pin goes off on its own. Normally from having too light of a trigger or something. I guess depending on how the safety is designed it could go off when the safety was disengaged.

Out of curiosity, do you know if the people sued Remington over it?

My biggest question though is why would you disengage the safety with the weapon pointed in an unsafe direction? I mean it sucks that it happened but come on why would you do that?

Paul