Guns that accidentally go off if dropped.?

Question

I need to know of a gun that will go off if dropped. Obviously its old, but i need to know of a gun.

Its for a story; thanks.

Answer 1

Colt 1873 SAA aka the Colt Peacemaker.



These things were notorious for going off if the hammer was bumped or jarred. So much so that those who carried them deliberately left the chamber under the hammer unloaded.

Answer 2

Essentially, ANY revolver with a hammer mounted firing pin will fire if the weapon is dropped on the hammer with the hammer down on a loaded round This includes basically every revolver made until the invention of the frame mounted firing pin, and then MANY models even thereafter that did not make concessions to STOP or DISCONNECT the frame mounted firing pin until the trigger is pulled. Specific models would include the Colt Single Action Army (or any of its clones), or the Smith & Wesson Model 10 (aka S&W Military & Police) & Model 13, Model 29 or 629 (Dirty Harry), early Colt Troopers in .38spcl, etc etc.



Any number of hammered pistols and revolvers without specific safeties like pin block safeties (like Glock) or two piece firing pins (Marlin), or "transfer bar systems" (like the Ruger design, as well as Taurus) . For example, a 1911 or a Browning Hi-Power pistol with the hammer down on a loaded chamber (safety would be off by design) would fire if dropped on the hammer. The Heritage Rough Rider .22lr revolver has a frame mounted firing pin (not hammer mounted), but it does not have any internal pin stop features, so it WILL fire if the hammer is struck when the hammer is down on an empty chamber.



And then there are those flukes, where a striker fired weapon that doesn't have sufficient sear pressure and no firing pin block safety can "slip" if dropped.



Alternatively, there are modifications that if improperly pursued can also cause a weapon to discharge when dropped. I've known a few shooters with Ruger Mark II pistols (internal hammer fired) that "polished the sear" to improve their trigger pulls, but ultimately made the weapons unsafe by removing too much sear pressure, allowing the sear to "slip" if the gun is dropped.

Answer 3

My dad said growing up they had a shotgun that would fire when bumped hard enough... they found it out when he was around 9 and he was going some kind of bird hunting for the first time. Just the night before my grandpa had been out taking care of racoons and he must have forgotten the shell in the chamber but when my dad grabbed the gun and brought it out to the living room he kind of banged it down on the floor and i guess shot a hole in the roof and scared grandma half to death. They showed me where it happened but they fixed the hole years ago and its hard to tell for sure.



Dont remember what make/ model it was but when my dad turned 18 he took it and got it fixed. I possibly may have been abused but it was just an old shotgun that rode around in the trucks and tractors and on the four wheelers around the farm.

Answer 4

Long rifle or handgun?



Rifles- there's two possibilities here. One is a poorly maintained SKS rifle. Because of the design of the firing pin, it's possible for the firing pin to contact the primer of a chambered round either during loading or under some unusual circumstances. The other possibility would be a 30-30, but it'd be highly unusual. A 30-30 holds its rounds in a tubular magazine. That is, the nose of one round is in contact with the primer of the round in front of it. Normally the bullets of these rounds are flat and soft in order to prevent them from striking the primer with enough force to fire. However, if you incorrectly hand-loaded pointed (Spitzer) bullets into a 30-30 casing, it could go off that way.



For a pistol the possibility is a Savage Arms 1907 pistol. If the pistol is carried with a round in the chamber, but the cocking lever forward, then the firing pin is in contact with the cartridge primer. That could then lead to it discharging if dropped.



Other possibilities can, of course, occur, especially in a poorly maintained firearm. Those were just the ones that jumped out at me.

Answer 5

Ruger Old Model Single Action.

Answer 6

older guns ,maybe.But it takes an idiot to drop the gun in the first place.Colt Six Shooters are known for it but cowboys that could have been your great grand dads put the hammers down on a empty chamber.So your question has been answered.Only lefist want to control the world but don't know how to open carry in Arizona.

Answer 7

Older cheaper guns. Any handgun made nowadays must pass a drop test.

Answer 8

It's a fictional story. Use any gun.



Actually, all guns are not supposed to discharge off just dropping them.

Answer 9

SKS.



TT-33



Makarov (only if you slam it on the muzzle).



Those are the three that came to mind first, the first one is a rifle and the second and third are pistols.

Answer 10

its possible for any gun to go off on accident, so pick any gun u want.

Answer 11

any older weapon that has been poorly maintained might do that.

Answer 12

Moral of the story: Don't use guns!

Answer 13

A Remmington model 700 rifle. Over the years, there have been MANY "ACCIDENTS" with those rifles. To this day, I don't think that Remmington has ever Acknowledged the problem.