Holster Recall
Remember the holster with the “design problem?” That article didn’t mention the type of holster, so I’m not sure if that story is related to this one from yesterday:
A Pennsylvania company is recalling some 3,200 gun holsters because the strap can catch the trigger and cause the weapon to fire accidentally.
Eight incidents of accidental firing have been reported, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday.
The Fobus USA Holster Division of First Samco Inc., of Southampton, Pa., is recalling its Fobus GLT holsters, designed for Series 17 and Series 19 Glock handguns fitted with a laser-sight light. There have been eight reports of guns discharging as they were inserted into the holster. One person sustained a finger injury.
And just to round out with our obligatory flogging of the gun-ignorant press, the article sports a picture of a gun: a Ruger revolver (with the cylinder latch on the right side; do they make a version like that?).
UPDATE: As usual, I’m a day later. Jeff at Alphecca had this story yesterday. (via Les)
June 10th, 2004 at 8:45 am
You mean the revolutionary Glock safe action trigger won’t prevent an accidental discharge???
(I never trusted that “the safety’s on the trigger” thing, especially since most negligent discharges happen because of someone negligently pulling the trigger. No safety & some responsibility would be miles above all the mechanical safeties they can devise.)
The photo was flipped. It happens every now & then. There’s some movie (I forget which one) that features Garands with the Op Rod handle on the left side of the gun. I was freaking for a while thinking I missed a variant till I learned that the media & film industry will occassionally flip a picture for some reason or another.
It’s not anything as bad as the media usually does with firearms, although I don’t think they realize what kind of panic & wonderment they induce in collectors when they do stuff like that. (Yes, I roughly calculated how much the sole left hand Garand variant would be worth & who.. er, I mean what I could sell to buy it.)
June 10th, 2004 at 9:13 am
I figured it was flipped, but mainly my point was that the holster in question is for Glocks, but they slap up a picture of a wheel gun!
I mean, it’s like writing a story about Firestone tires causing Ford Explorers to roll over, but showing a picture of a Buick LeSabre.
June 10th, 2004 at 9:21 am
not when the trigger is pulled.
I do wonder if it is related to the other AD.
June 10th, 2004 at 9:49 am
Pub: the safe action mechanism is different from the triger bar safety. The safe action is the “half-cocked” striker. But, yeah, I think the trigger bar safety is pointless.
Enemy at the Gates is another movie that flipped the bolt to the left side in the posters.
June 10th, 2004 at 12:29 pm
“You mean that the gun goes off every time you pull the trigger?”
“Yeah, I won’t buy one that doesn’t do that.”
June 10th, 2004 at 12:33 pm
The whole notion of William Antrim (“Billy the Kid”) Bonney as “the left handed gun” derives from the contact printing technology used for the one known photo of him.