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First ever happened to me yesterday after thousands of rounds fired safely. I was moving some stuff around in my safe and knocked my Beretta Tomcat .32 off of the top shelf. It fell to the bottom of the safe and went off. I was lucky nothing was damaged and I wasn't shot. The safety was on. The case had the slightest primer strike. It did not cycle. The discharged empty case was still in the chamber. I don't know how this could happen but I won't be storing it with one in the pipe anymore. Should this be looked at by a smith? Go ahead and flame about safe gun handling. I CCW and am confident in my ability to handle firearms safely. Just freaked me out a little! I will try to post a pic of the primer strike and what is left of the bullet later.
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Glad you were not hurt. I thought the Tomcat was on the drop test approved handgun list. When the safety is engaged, the slide does not move.sigpic
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thats crazy, glad no1 was hurt. shouldn't the beretta have passed the drop test in the CA roster program? guess thats useless, nothing new there, and yeah for a safe gun i would keep it none in the chamberComment
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That would have scared the everloving crap out of me. Glad you weren't hurt.Greg
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If it's a light strike, it could be the inertia of the firing pin struck the primer when the gun hit the bottom of the safe.
I don't think the 3032 has a firing pin safety block. (I could be wrong.)
The 3032 might pass the drop test when dropped so the hammer is hit; but muzzle down, the firing pin could travel forward hitting the primer.
All speculation of course.Life Member NRA and 2A Foundation.
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The drop test is to simulate a fumble from the holster, and is done at ~40 inches. A drop from a top shelf of a safe is probably twice that distance.
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Wow, glad you were unharmed.sent from my iPhone 1911 using TapatalkComment
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Glad you weren't hurt. Interested in the pics of course.Comment
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Something similar happened to me, but with a .45, I thought I shot my hand and was scared to look at it. It barely missed my hand, I dont know if it was the muzzle blast or the bullet that shredded the end of my hoody. Bullet grazed the bed and went through the headboard and hit the wall but bounced out. Still havent got over that, so I currently do not have my 45 with a bullet in the chamber. I do have my SG chambered though, the safety is on and I have a piece of painters tape on the receiver that says "loaded". It was very nerve racking.Nikita Khrushchev said"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism. "Comment
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No AD at home. I did have an AD at the range when I accidentally bumped my super light trigger bench gun. I was getting ready to fire but pulled away to get something out of my gun case on the table. As I lifted the case over the loaded rifle in the rest the case slipped and landed on the rifle. BANG! Looked around and no one noticed
. Because the gun weighed 20 pounds and was only a 223 it didn't even move and it hit only an inch away from dead center on the target.
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