Boater wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
On Dec 5, 1:21 pm, wrote:
On Dec 5, 1:13 pm, Frogwatch wrote:



On Dec 5, 12:58 pm, Gene Kearns
wrote:
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 08:54:32 -0800 (PST), penned
the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|On Dec 5, 11:51 am, wrote:
| How many of you would play with your weapons, racking and dryfiring
| while talking on the phone to somebody? To me that is pretty
stupid,
| but I am not a gun guy... What do you think, should someone like
that
| be allowed to have handguns or should there be some kind of safety
| course/mental evaluation first?
|
|I think a mental evaluation should be mandatory for gun ownership. I
|don't want people around me with guns that are unstable. Take someone
|that is so paranoid that they answer their door with a loaded weapon.
I've always considered dry firing a weapon a really bad idea...... I
just wouldn't do it....
If I come to answer the door, I'm not taking the gun out, just to do
so.....
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OK, I know nothing about guns. Why is dry firing bad?- Hide quoted
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I don't know this for fact, but I think one thing would be excessive
wear from the pin bottoming out because there is no resistence.

Are firing pins generally replaceable?

And cheap, too. It's not a problem.

The unanswered question is when is the firing pin going to break. Dry
firing increases the chance that it will break sooner rather than later.