Posted on 09/03/2019 5:02:12 AM PDT by w1n1
Thanks for that info!
Not being a weapons expert can be a handicap on FR.
On my S&W Shield .45, the striker is placed into firing position by the slide pulling it back as it moves rearward.
As the slide comes forward the sear catches the striker and holds it in position, ready to fire.
Pulling the trigger simply disengages the sear from the striker and allows the striker to be pulled by the spring into the impacting the primer.
If there is no round in the chamber the mechanism still operates.
But you would need to rack the slide to restart the cycle.
Cabron! LOL!
Funny and fun video. Brave, perhaps even reckless, move to try test firing the obviously broken pistol with his strong hand.
The only thing the video lacks is a strip down of the pistol afterwards to identify everything that was broken by the impact and the part or parts that caused the pistol not to function.
Another Freeper wrote that Hi-Point has a pretty good guarantee policy and would repair even this pistol if returned to them. Send it in along with the video so they can redesign the “defective” parts and prevent inexcusable failures like this in the future.
< /sarcasm>
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