sorry SA but that would make a great tombstone statement, " it won't happen to me "lol.I too practice safe gun handling and have had an AD with an old 16 ga s/s, the little bump it took when shouldering it on a rising grouse caused it to discharge without my finger being near the trigger, a second one was with a mdl 94 winchester 22 that when I thought I had fired all rounds at the range, worked the lever 3-4 x to make sure the gun was empty and even looked inside to check the chamber, but my eyes played a trick on me and there was a live round in there that I looked for but didn't see. when I pulled the trigger ( with the gun poiting down range ) to take the spring pressure off the trigger it fired. nobody hurt, lesson learned, you can't allways trust what your eyes tell you, and from now on I look with my eyes and fingers, to feel if the chambers empty. the ejector had slipped over the rim on the case repeatedly, ejector worn.
true rule # 1 don't point guns at your kids. she obviously didn't know what she was doing and had no bussiness handling a gun around children, but a mechanical event still happened. and rem has to assume that their products are going to be handled by idiots from time to time.
I guess I should reiterate what I meant . A 700 can have a mechanical breakdown as all other firearms can.I just dont believe a 700 is a faulty weapon.Always practice gun safety,you can not say that enough. I never point my weapons at anything I would not shoot.I teach my son to unload at dark,keep rifle pointed away from himself when leaving ground blind and reload after entering ground blind.Always point weapon in a safe direction.
that 16 ga A.D. really scared the crap outa me and my hunting bud who was slightly in front of and to my right when it happened, even though I was taking the ones to the left and he was taking the ones to the right. his wife would've tied my schmeckle in a knot for pulling a Dick Chenney on her husband.
My buddy's son fired his mossberg I believe,maybe something else but it blew up in his face.Luckily he wasn't hurt,just a good cut on his arm. We think he may have stuck the barrel in mud. Same boy a few years earlier had a muzzleloader discharge while carrying on his back in a sling. HAd another friend have the hammer on his ML catch a branch while climbing a tree and it discharged. $hit happens but I know two of those incidents could have been prevented.
