Thread: Remington Under Fire on CNCB

Anyone watch that Program - was on Sky CNCB yesterday

About the 700 and discharges without pulling the trigger

There's been quite a bit floating around over this.
Like all media reports, the full story never gets told.

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Remington 700 Defective Trigger, Accident Rifle Discharge - Dallas, Texas

Remington 700 under fire at CNBC(merged)

Isn't that like years old, or is this another one.

Its the same ole news but rehashed again. Each rifle sent back to Remington was not able to re perform the "said" malfunction in the hands of Remington staff and independent assessors.

In most cases, the owners had not maintained trigger groups or had modified triggers in place. Nor could mis-use be ruled out in most of the cases. As some of the incidents had fatalities involved it reinforces the fact that the safety is between the brain. No one would have died if rifles were not pointed at other people in the first place. Sad but it seems easy to blame the manufacturer.

However there is enough evidence to suggest that the older triggers did have some flaw if dirt and grime got in the connector and this could be reason for some of the incidents where triggers malfunctioned that had not been modified in anyway.

Reinforces the "don't point rifle at anything you are not willing to destroy" rule.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by jakewire

Isn't that like years old, or is this another one.

From what I understand, there was another case over there in which a woman died and the media jumped on the case and rehashed old stuff.

Welcome to like 1994

I am aware of this issue but have never had a problem with my 700 as I suspect most haven't.