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To: Mr. Mojo
...after they became aware of problems with "light strikes"...

Possibly an ammunition problem with hard primers? Did they try other brands of ammo? The same ammo in other semiautomatic handguns?

From the article:
In training, LAPD officers primarily use lower-quality ammunition than is used in the field.

9 posted on 11/26/2005 2:02:56 PM PST by 10mm
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To: 10mm

"Light strikes" have been a bane of ALL firearms that cock on the closing of the bolt.

The bolt is the slide on a self loading pistol.

REAL PISTOLS have a device called a hammer which is recocked as the first action after firing.


16 posted on 11/26/2005 2:16:45 PM PST by 308MBR (If we ain't supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?)
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To: 10mm
Hard primers, weak firing pin springs. Also the trigger bar being out of spec. due to a manufacturing or metallurgical defect. I'm a certified armorer on the glock 22 and I cannot recall in 5 years any problem remotely like this. I'd look into the ammo a little closer before I blame the gun. If the ordnance guys went cheap on the training ammo that could easily explain it.

CC

22 posted on 11/26/2005 2:48:04 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Billy Tauzin about Louisiana: "half the state is under water, the other half is under indictment")
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To: 10mm
Possibly an ammunition problem with hard primers? Did they try other brands of ammo? The same ammo in other semiautomatic handguns? Good point.
94 posted on 11/27/2005 7:41:53 AM PST by Kokojmudd (Outsource the US Senate to Mexico! Pul Walmart in charge of all Federal agencies!)
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