Originally Posted by
crenshaw
Saw it with my own eyes.. The rifle was just sitting there leaning up against the truck, and bang!!! No one within 5 feet of it.. The gun smith explained that the springs go bad, apparently the saftey mechanism is held in place with a spring, not a gun smith so i dont know all the lingo here. But either way the spring went bad and caused the safty to slip, and some how effects the trigger... Its like back pressure i guess. He actually showed us, he simulated it by repeatedly opening and closing the bolt for like two minutes and eventualy it went off again.. crazy stuff. Apparently though this is only on older models of the BDL where this is possible is what we were told...
Dang, that's pretty crazy. IIRC weren't the rifles that allegedly had issues all made in the 70's? Anyone else heard that?