Smith 5946. Police trade-in at pawn shop. Took home, cleaned, oiled, full mag in, rack a round then hit the decocker....BANG! Round misses leg by inches, thru leather couch cushion, hits hardwood floor, ricochet to TV cabinet, another ricochet into the wall. I'm trying to explain it was a faulty decocker by Mrs thinks I am now totally inept at handling firearms.
Shop gladly did full refund. I wasn't interested in fixing it, I wasn't going to get back up on that horse. Good news is no one was bleeding. Bad news is I killed the couch, have a hole in my floor and a dent in the entertainment center and now I flinch everytime I use a decocker!
I've never trusted a decocker on a pistol, and won't own one that does.
I had a ND just last sunday.
My friend & I had just gotten back from the shooting range, and I had brought his rifle in his house from the jeep.
It was a CZ in .22 Hornet. I didn't shoot it at the range, but I did want to feel how light the double set trigger was.
The bolt was half open - I closed it then pulled it open to inspect the chamber, then closed it again. I then proceded to open his back door, set the trigger and took aim at some cross ties in his back yard, and squeezed her off. BOOM!
There had been one round left in the detachable magazine, that I didn't see, and I had actually racked a round from the mag after inspecting the chamber.
I felt like a real idiot after that one, but thank God I had enough sense to aim it at something that would do no harm in shooting.