How does a Pump know its Empty?

[rcmodel]

O.K.
But say they did accidently load it, not on purpose of course.
And then throw it down, or drop it for instance?
Or maybe even hit the dirt with the butt-plate foreword keeping it from being a face-plant?

Shouldn't it have a safety?

Just to keep it from accidently firing, and starting a fight they didn't want anything to do with in the first place???

Just saying??

rc

 

[Sergei Mosin]

The French took the view that the rifle was not supposed to be loaded, or a round chambered, unless you meant to use it. From what I understand, at least with the MAS-36, it is possible to load the magazine and close the bolt without chambering a round.

On the subject of blocking followers, the MAS-36 was originally designed without one but WWII experience convinced the French to install them in later production and retrofit them to earlier rifles.

 

[coloradokevin]

With most doubles, and many older guns this is true. With most modern guns it will take an awful lot of dry fires to do any damage. In fact I'm of the opinion that a firing pin on most guns will break at exactly the same round count whether they are dry fired or live fired.

I've been dry firing just about every gun I've ever owned for well over 40 years. Never broken anything, never owned a snap cap.

Agreed. Many competition shooters dry fire thousands of times per week (I've done this with some of my guns too). Some guns don't like dry firing, but it is perfectly fine with most modern designs.

I once saw a gun store employee berate a customer for dry-firing a Glock, telling him something along the lines of: "DON'T DO THAT! You may have ruined the gun by doing that... if you break it you buy it". I interjected at this point by asking the employee: "You can't possibly believe that, do you?".

I typically ask before I dry fire a gun in a store, simply because some shooters are so averse to dry-firing. A couple of times I've received "the lecture" on the "damage" caused by dry-firing, often while handling guns like Glocks and the like.

It's a silly old wive's tale that doesn't apply for most modern guns.