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<blockquote data-quote="David2012" data-source="post: 1789653" data-attributes="member: 24428"><p>Posted on BOLO Report:</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Officer Safety: Ammunition cycling and failure to fire</span></strong></p><p></p><p>February 17th, 2012 ·BOLO Report Admin·Officer Safety, Training and education</p><p></p><p><a href="http://boloreport.com/officer-safety-ammunition-cycling-and-failure-to-fire#comments" target="_blank">http://boloreport.com/officer-safety-ammunition-cycling-and-failure-to-fire#comments</a></p><p></p><p>THE FOLLOWING TRAINING ADVISORY WAS FORWARDED FROM A POLICE DEPARTMENT IN GEORGIA IN 2011</p><p>In September of this year a PD officer was involved in a situation which quickly became a use of deadly force incident. When the officer made the decision to use deadly force, the chambered round in his duty pistol did not fire. Fortunately, the officer used good tactics, remembered his training and cleared the malfunction, successfully ending the encounter.</p><p></p><p><strong>The misfired round, which had a full firing pin strike, was collected and was later sent to the manufacturer for analysis. Their analysis showed the following: “.the cause of the misfire was determined to be from the primer mix being knocked out of the primer when the round was cycled through the firearm multiple times”. We also sent an additional 2,000 rounds of the Winchester 9mm duty ammunition to the manufacturer. All 2,000 rounds were successfully fired.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>In discussions with the officer, we discovered that since he has small children at home, he unloads his duty weapon daily. His routine is to eject the chambered round to store the weapon. Prior to returning to duty he chambers the top round in his primary magazine, then takes the previously ejected round and puts in back in the magazine. Those two rounds were repeatedly cycled and had been since duty ammunition was issued in February or March of 2011, resulting in as many as 100 chambering and extracting cycles. This caused an internal failure of the primer, not discernible by external inspection.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>This advisory is to inform all sworn personnel that repeated cycling of duty rounds is to be avoided.</strong> As a reminder, when loading the weapon, load from the magazine and do not drop the round directly into the chamber. If an officer’s only method of safe home storage is to unload the weapon, the Firearms Training Unit suggests that you unload an entire magazine and rotate those rounds. In addition, you should also rotate through all 3 duty magazines, so that all 52 duty rounds are cycled, not just a few rounds. A more practical method of home storage is probably to use a trigger lock or a locked storage box.</p><p></p><p>FURTHER GUIDANCE FROM ATF FIREARMS TECHNOLOGY BRANCH:</p><p></p><p></p><p>[This was good quality Winchester 9mm ammo.... and the opinion given for the failure was from Winchester! The hard repeated slamming of the same two rounds into the chamber from the magazine is much more forceful than the vibration produced by a tumbler.]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="David2012, post: 1789653, member: 24428"] Posted on BOLO Report: [B][SIZE=4]Officer Safety: Ammunition cycling and failure to fire[/SIZE][/B] February 17th, 2012 ·BOLO Report Admin·Officer Safety, Training and education [url]http://boloreport.com/officer-safety-ammunition-cycling-and-failure-to-fire#comments[/url] THE FOLLOWING TRAINING ADVISORY WAS FORWARDED FROM A POLICE DEPARTMENT IN GEORGIA IN 2011 In September of this year a PD officer was involved in a situation which quickly became a use of deadly force incident. When the officer made the decision to use deadly force, the chambered round in his duty pistol did not fire. Fortunately, the officer used good tactics, remembered his training and cleared the malfunction, successfully ending the encounter. [B]The misfired round, which had a full firing pin strike, was collected and was later sent to the manufacturer for analysis. Their analysis showed the following: “.the cause of the misfire was determined to be from the primer mix being knocked out of the primer when the round was cycled through the firearm multiple times”. We also sent an additional 2,000 rounds of the Winchester 9mm duty ammunition to the manufacturer. All 2,000 rounds were successfully fired.[/B] [B]In discussions with the officer, we discovered that since he has small children at home, he unloads his duty weapon daily. His routine is to eject the chambered round to store the weapon. Prior to returning to duty he chambers the top round in his primary magazine, then takes the previously ejected round and puts in back in the magazine. Those two rounds were repeatedly cycled and had been since duty ammunition was issued in February or March of 2011, resulting in as many as 100 chambering and extracting cycles. This caused an internal failure of the primer, not discernible by external inspection.[/B] [B]This advisory is to inform all sworn personnel that repeated cycling of duty rounds is to be avoided.[/B] As a reminder, when loading the weapon, load from the magazine and do not drop the round directly into the chamber. If an officer’s only method of safe home storage is to unload the weapon, the Firearms Training Unit suggests that you unload an entire magazine and rotate those rounds. In addition, you should also rotate through all 3 duty magazines, so that all 52 duty rounds are cycled, not just a few rounds. A more practical method of home storage is probably to use a trigger lock or a locked storage box. FURTHER GUIDANCE FROM ATF FIREARMS TECHNOLOGY BRANCH: [This was good quality Winchester 9mm ammo.... and the opinion given for the failure was from Winchester! The hard repeated slamming of the same two rounds into the chamber from the magazine is much more forceful than the vibration produced by a tumbler.] [/QUOTE]
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