Brazilian Police Pistol Accidental Discharges

Posted March 20, 2014 in Pistols by Steve Johnson with 42 Comments
Tags: pistol, taurus

In September last year the São Paulo State Military Police (PMSP) recalled 96,000 Taurus 24/7 DS pistols because a number of them were able to be be discharged without pulling the trigger. We published a short clip showing a faulty police pistol being discharged but yesterday a reader emailed us a link to the full clip showing an unidentified person firing the 24/7 simply by flicking his wrist. Its scary stuff.

Please note, this blog post refers to Taurus (Brazil) not Taurus USA.

Thanks to Bryan for the tip.

Steve Johnson

I founded TFB in 2007 and over 10 years worked tirelessly, with the help of my team, to build it up into the largest gun blog online. I retired as Editor in Chief in 2017. During my decade at TFB I was fortunate to work with the most amazing talented writers and genuinely good people!