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Originally posted by Jim Watson:
Keep selling the Army time bombs, I guess.

The Army models have manual safeties. I was under the impression that the uncommanded discharges couldn't happen with a manual safety engaged. Am I wrong?

^^^As I understand it, you are not wrong (or at least not completely). One of the theories is that this is all happening because the trigger bar moves when the sear is jostled. True, the manual safety would prevent this from happening (when engaged). Likewise, the manual safety (when engaged) prevents inertial motion of the trigger bar. In fact, the original drop issue that was “solved” a while back is actually moot whenever the manual safety is engaged.

However, other theories point to the unconventional striker block safety design and/or poor overall parts quality as culprits. The manual safety unfortunately cannot make up for those.

This most recent air force UD is a manual safety model. We’ll see the outcome. I lean more towards someone pulled a trigger on this case but we’ll see.

Has any unwanted discharge been documented in a 320x frame ?