26
Airman arrested for death that prompted Air Force-wide safety review of Sig M18
(taskandpurpose.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2025
26 points (96.4% liked)
guns
1778 readers
1 users here now
Keep it civil.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Forgotten Weapons has a great video about this whole issue. I found it odd that there's been no actual evidence of the guns misfiring, dropped or otherwise, and there's been no mechanical explanation given as to why they're "misfiring". It's all based cases like this where we're just taking peoples' word for it and it's to the point that the Air Force is burning money on a review.
This dude is gonna be made an example of if he's proven guilty...
Ian also hit the nail on the head that even if there genuinely is no defect whatsoever on the gun, they still are in deep shit due to public perception regardless of reality.
Yeah, some people are WAY too invested in the whole thing, but I've been around long enough that I've seen this all before. Gen1 Glock 17s could also fire after being dropped, for example, so they had to come up with the drop-safety fix. Also the whole free floating firing pin thing in SKSs when the old soviet stockpiles started flooding the market in the 90s, despite the issue being known about for decades.
Shit happens, they'll (hopefully) end up fixing it if the slide issue is the culprit. Then everybody will forget it all in 6 months. Maybe not the people that literally put bumper stickers on their cars over this whole shit show, but everyone else any ways lol
Protip: Isopropyl alcohol is great for getting the glue off of your car without damaging the paint (it evaporates faster than acetone) ;)