CNBC Report: "Remington Under Fire"

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http://www.hulu.com/watch/195819/cnbc-originals-remington-under-fire-a-cnbc-investigation

I mostly shoot pistols and don't hang around the rifle section too much, but after watching this program last night, I thought it was pretty interesting since almost all of the discussions talking about NDs and ADs in internet gun forums always seem to blame the user instead of the weapon. In the report, they show video of multiple people firing the Remington 700 without touching the trigger. They also have thousands of reports of this occuring with this series rifle. Also, they have the original designer of the rifle saying that it is in fact a safety issue, and that the safety on the rifle is not really a safety.

Is this common knowledge about the Remington 700 series rifles around here?

Has anyone here had a similar occurance?

Either way, I was unable to sleep last night and thought that this program was pretty interesting.
 
This one has been well hashed over here as it is already a few months old. Just search this forum and you will be able to find a lot of info on it. If you own a M700 just practice safe firearm handling like you should and if it ever happens to you no one should get hurt. The other option is to replace the trigger with a quality aftermarket one like Timney or see if Remington will put one of their new X-mark triggers in for free.
 
One thing everyone should take from that show is the "Four Basic Safety Rules"

Any gun can malfunction, but if the 4 rules were followed NO ONE WOULD GET HURT, noting of value would be hit.

That you can take to the bank.
 
The safety is not the problem. It is the trigger. The gun sometimes fires without pulling the trigger.

I know all about the 4 rules and about muzzle control, yada,yada,yada. I still don't want my guns to fire until I pull the trigger.

I still haven't decided if it is better for my gun to fire without the trigger being pulled when the muzzle is pointed up, where the bullet could come down and strike someone. Or if it would be better to let it fire into the ground where it could fragment or richochet and hit someone.

There were a series of news stories about this back during the 1970's and again during the 1990's. It is truly an old story.
 
I had one rifle do that. It was because I set the sear engagement to short. Reset the adjustments, no problem after that.
 
The safety is not the problem. It is the trigger. The gun sometimes fires without pulling the trigger.
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Yeah, happened to me... right after I adjusted the trigger too light.

Which, I would guess, is what happened with allot of the other instances of it occurring.

Jim
 
The bottom line is Remington had a defect. The four rules are most important, but an unsafe design is unacceptable from any manufacturer but especially an American firearms manufacturer.

People can deny the problem, and people can ignor the problem. Either way the problem was real and needed to be addressed.
 
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