I am glad to hear you wife,or anyone else,did not get hurt out of this. I know AD's are a scary thing. I had one once. I was with my cousin after he got back from MCRD San Diego and we were burning up some ammo cause he said he wanted to.(the Marines teach them to love shooting anything) We were shooting my SKS and my Mauser m48. I was shooting the sks from a standing position and pulled the trigger and it went "click". So I counted to 5 and lowered the rifle and saw that the bolt was not fully closed and gave the charging handle a push and BANG. For those who do not know a sks has a free moving firing pin so when I pulled the trigger the the firing pin was down with the hammer was keeping it there. So when I gave the handle a push I manually pushed the firing pin into the primer. Besides feeling stupid,a sore thumb from the charging handle recoiling my thumb backwards the way it's not supposed to go, and a good scare and that was it. I should have made sure the bolt was fully closed beforehand but I had never had it not go into full battery before after releasing the charging handle. And as you all know hindsight is always 20\20 and I learned my lesson never to do that again.