Please opine on what you think happened here.
Some of the opinions/options presented: cheap gun, cheap ammo, wrong type of ammo, dirty gun, bad or incorrectly adjusted firing pin.
the gun wasn’t licensed, regulated and restricted…
I’d have to agree with the firing pin malfunctioning…
The firing pin functioned. The magazine ejected from the pistol when it was fired. This implies the magazine was not fully locked in to the well, slide was not full forward when the pistol fired, or they were using handloads with too much powder.
1 Like
Looks like a catastrophic firing pin failure. That and I don’t think he had the mag fully locked in the magazine well.
1 Like
Like an engine you can only put so much heat into a design before it â– â– â– â– â– the bed catastrophically.
It’s like those dudes who think “I’m gonna run 40psi of turbo boost on my stock 98 Honda Civic” and then act surprised when the pistons melt.
To true. We would really need to have been there to determine exactly what happened The firing pins on 1911s (that looks like a 1911, or a knock, is inside the upper receiver. It is in a steel box with a plate that the business end slightly protrudes from in the upper receiver. That same plate is the surface that feeds the round from the magazine upwards and into the chamber of the barrel. So the firing pin didn’t fail. The pressure from the bullet firing pushed the magazine out. Those 2 in the picture apparently aren’t trained enough to shoot on their own. Apparently the one who pulled the trigger doesn’t know the correct name for the “thing” that came out.
Maybe the shooter changed his mind and decided to insert bullets manualy. 
