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<blockquote data-quote="USMCGrunt" data-source="post: 481242" data-attributes="member: 8470">Well, I think a lot of that is due to the level of hopliphobia of senior leadership in the military. However to be fair, there are a lot of junior enlisted I wouldn’t trust with anything more than a squirt gun either so I can see that point as well.&nbsp; Couple of cases:When I was on barracks duty in Italy, we had one&nbsp; LCpl. cap off a round on post with a 1911.&nbsp; He claimed that the pistol fell out of the holster and “just went off.”&nbsp; Our guard chief attempted to drop the pistol several times but somehow it just failed to cycle the slide, jack a round into the chamber then discharge. Sign the charge sheet. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolling_eyes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" />The other was a flight cop at Eglin AFB that claimed his M9 “just went off”.&nbsp; They brought it over to our shop for me to inspect and report my finding as part of a command directed investigation. I grabbed a couple other CATM instructors to verify my function test and ripping that M9 apart to inspect the parts and of course, everything was in proper order.&nbsp; No, this weapon functions exactly as designed. Sign the charge sheet. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolling_eyes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="USMCGrunt, post: 481242, member: 8470"] Well, I think a lot of that is due to the level of hopliphobia of senior leadership in the military. However to be fair, there are a lot of junior enlisted I wouldn’t trust with anything more than a squirt gun either so I can see that point as well. Couple of cases: When I was on barracks duty in Italy, we had one LCpl. cap off a round on post with a 1911. He claimed that the pistol fell out of the holster and “just went off.” Our guard chief attempted to drop the pistol several times but somehow it just failed to cycle the slide, jack a round into the chamber then discharge. Sign the charge sheet. 🙄 The other was a flight cop at Eglin AFB that claimed his M9 “just went off”. They brought it over to our shop for me to inspect and report my finding as part of a command directed investigation. I grabbed a couple other CATM instructors to verify my function test and ripping that M9 apart to inspect the parts and of course, everything was in proper order. No, this weapon functions exactly as designed. Sign the charge sheet. 🙄 [/QUOTE]

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