Posted on 02/23/2023 11:11:30 PM PST by kjam22
Thanks Maudeen. Thanks to everybody. I very much appreciate all of you
Prayers are up
The firing pin problem of the parent Witness is probably why Springfield left the firing pin block out. Rather stupid decision.
I certainly wouldn’t carry a non-drop-safe firearm like that.
Perhaps if the pistol was in the “cocked and locked” condition, the discharge wouldn’t have happened. For certain it wouldn’t happen if the chamber was empty.
Sorry for your misery. Get well soon.
I hope you recover swiftly and as painlessly as possible. Also, please replace that P9 as it is not safe as a carry gun - reasons explained in my and others’ posts above, it isn’t drop safe at all.
Maybe consider a modern, safer polymer pistol?
You need more luck.
I’ll pray for that.
Oh man, that just sucks. Prayers for a quick recovery.
Ouch! and prayers up! Could have been worse...
Oh man. Prayers.
Damn
“The firing pin problem of the parent Witness is probably why Springfield left the firing pin block out. Rather stupid decision.”
Yeah, it is kinda shockingly bad decision by Springfield.
A special prayer that your leg heals up O.K.
The chamber being empty would massively increase the time it takes to bring the pistol into action and introduce another potential point of failure at a time when milliseconds count.
I am not familiar enough with the Witness family to say whether it *can* be carried cocked and locked, as many later pistols cannot. Even it it were capable of doing so, there’s no shortage of pistols where the safety blocking the hammer from falling in a drop scenario isn’t really strong enough. Certainly old and worn 1911s and Browning High Powers have been known to do it too, but that’s more of a ‘your gun is old, worn and broken’ issue than a design or materials choice issue.
Prayers up!
Hope you heal fast and have an excellent recovery.
Reminder to everyone else - check to see if your gun(s) is subject to a recall(not saying that that is the case here).
And Springfield put their name on that?
But how did it fire if the hammer was not even cocked?
They have a checkered history, yes. At the time this P9 was produced, they were more of an import house for foreign made firearms that happened to make M1A clones. Some of what they imported/made under license/had made under contract was good (Brazilian FALs, what became the Springfield XD, the basis of their 1911s) and some of it... wasn’t.
Still better than the embarrassment that was post-Carter-era Colt, though.
Thank goodness it did not hit an artery, especially the femoral.
Now you have that question answered as well. “How can you shoot yourself?”
And saftey on at that!
Father, i ask for an injured brother, that he have a safe and successful surgery. Thank the Lord, He is faithful. may He give you healing and a quick recovery. In the Great Physician’s Name, Jesus Christ, we the faithful pray. Amen.
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