Remington 700 firing without pulling trigger?

[Gimmeguns]

Just as in the title, just watched a special on 60 minutes discussing this problem. When flipping off the safety, the gun can fire without pulling the trigger.

I was just looking at buying one of these. Anybody heard of this issue?

 

[carpcrippler]

People probaly backing out thefactory trigger way 2 far .

 

[10thmountain]

ghost gun?

 

[CardsFan]

I saw 60 Minutes was going to air this story several weeks ago but it got delayed, probably so they could put out anti Trump stories first. When I saw the first listing of this story that finally aired tonight, I checked Remington's site and found the link below. No mention of the Walker trigger which also appears to have the same problem according to 60 minutes.

https://xmprecall.remington.com/

According to Remington, 700 series manufactured after April 9, 2014 don't have the problem, but probably a good idea to check before plunking down money. It also sounded like the problem is aggravated by cold temperatures.

 

[Old Patriot]

Never heard of that. Only weapon I saw that did something like that was a German G43, fired when the bolt went forward.

 

[Gimmeguns]

Several people have died due to the malfunction

 

[Duce4trey]

I know some of the Xmark triggers are under recall.
If you replace it with something else like a timney then you will have nothing to worry about.

 

[jpm2953]

I had a 700 VTR that did this to me. Flipped off the safety and BOOM!!! Glad it was pointed down range

 

[davans]

This is old news. Drop a timney in it and be done.

 

[Twitch2120]

The Xmark was supposed to fix the problem. I had an Xmark. Did it when cold. Gun would fire when moved from safe to fire or fire to safe. Put a timney in it or buy a savage or tikka.