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Gun Control Reform Activism

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8. Five accidental discharges? ...

Reply to Scuba (Reply #3)

Fri May 17, 2013, 03:48 PM

May 2013

The only way i can see this happening is if his pistol went full auto due to a malfunction (unlikely) or because some fool had modified the trigger pull and lowered it to an unsafe level.

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