robertbartsc
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I saw the CNBC program on the Remington 700. I owned this gun for several years in the 1970s in 30-06 and I never had an issue with it firing accidentally. I did think at the time that the trigger design was somewhat dangerous because of the safety off unloading.
I feel terrible about the lady and her son but I have to wonder why she would have pointed the gun muzzle at something she did not intend to shoot (e.g., a house trailer)? I never violate this rule even with guns I know (think) are unloaded. Doing this when loading and unloading any gun is particularly dangerous, maybe even reckless.
Was this a CNBC hachet job? Not really. I beleive there is enough evidence to clearly show that the design is a very bad one. Even the Rem. trigger engineer at age 98 says so. Remington was even warned in writting by this engineer while he was employed at the firm.
Why didn't Remington recall the gun and fix the design flaw before now?
This one is easy. The cost to Remington is not limited to the materials, labor and shipping needed to fix all of the thousands of guns made since the middle of the last century.
They likely realized that once a Remington recall is announced they will be flooded with lawsuits claiming they knew about the problem defect and covered it up since the beginning.
The CNBC report indictes Remington documents that prove they knew and did nothing are in the public domain now. I assume this will cause massive lawsuits and maybe a bankruptcy which could have been prevented.
When most of our factory jobs are going overseas, this is not something we need now.
Remington is owned by Cerbus Capital; is this the same private equity firm that owned the now bankrupt Chrysler Motors? -- UhG!
I feel terrible about the lady and her son but I have to wonder why she would have pointed the gun muzzle at something she did not intend to shoot (e.g., a house trailer)? I never violate this rule even with guns I know (think) are unloaded. Doing this when loading and unloading any gun is particularly dangerous, maybe even reckless.
Was this a CNBC hachet job? Not really. I beleive there is enough evidence to clearly show that the design is a very bad one. Even the Rem. trigger engineer at age 98 says so. Remington was even warned in writting by this engineer while he was employed at the firm.
Why didn't Remington recall the gun and fix the design flaw before now?
This one is easy. The cost to Remington is not limited to the materials, labor and shipping needed to fix all of the thousands of guns made since the middle of the last century.
They likely realized that once a Remington recall is announced they will be flooded with lawsuits claiming they knew about the problem defect and covered it up since the beginning.
The CNBC report indictes Remington documents that prove they knew and did nothing are in the public domain now. I assume this will cause massive lawsuits and maybe a bankruptcy which could have been prevented.
When most of our factory jobs are going overseas, this is not something we need now.
Remington is owned by Cerbus Capital; is this the same private equity firm that owned the now bankrupt Chrysler Motors? -- UhG!