Brazilian Police Pistol Accidental Discharges
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.
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Unfortunate situation. I've owned 2 Taurus products over the years. A model 85 and PT145. Never had a problem with either. Well, the trigger assembly pin started backing out of the PT145 after about 75 rounds. But, I backed it the test of the way out, added a little Loctite and haven't had a problem since.
Brazil is just trying to one-up our bump firing trend with this shake firing stuff.