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As a Marine-and a former firearms instructor for the USMC sniper course I never,not once saw a problem with any versionof the Remington 700 rifle.
CNBC did an anti-gun hit “piece” on Remington.
I can almost gaurantee that every incident was due to one of two things-improper cleaning of the rifle-or someone who did not know what they were doing adjusted the trigger.

No the original designer did NOT say the design was flawed-he said it was POSSIBLE that IF people did not properly clean and maintain the rifle-dirt and/or excess oil in the trigger assembly MIGHT cause it to discharge-MIGHT,COULD POSSIBLY. The man who designed the trigger-Mr. Walker NEVER ONCE said the design was flawed.
If it is such a bad trigger assembly-why does the military specify that the remington 700’s that both the US Army,and the USMC use as their main sniper rifle-comes with the Walker trigger?
The US military has used the remington 700 as their main sniper rifle since the early sixties,and they still use it.
All CNBC did was try to make guns look bad,as usual,mayor for life Bloomberg likely financed the story.

I personally have owned at least one Remington 700 since I was 16 years old,I am now 51. Myself,my family members,and my friends all own currently,or have owned a Remington 700.
I started hunting when I was 10 years old,and the first rifle I used was a 700. In that 41 year time span I have never,not once seen a remington 700 misfire as the CNBC story claimed. The CNBC story never asked the most important question-were the triggers on the guns modifiied? Adjusted by someone other than a qualified gunsmith?
Were the guns properly maintained?
They left out the FACT that not one of the things the 700 supposedly did could be duplicated by the attorneys,or their “experts”
Here is the true story,and the facts from Remington....
http://www.remington700.tv/#/home

CNBC is an anti-gun network anyhow-in the past they,along with MSNBC have shown a Browning .50 caliber belt fed machine gun,and called it a “rifle” leading people who know nothing about guns,or gun laws to believe that anyone can just walk into a gun shop,and walk out with a machine gun.
Don’t believe everything you see or hear in the media.