This is one of those articles which provides enough info to tantalize but not enough to let you know exactly what happened.
The article says the man who shot his wife and son installed a rubber sleeve over the grip (a grip enhancer) of his PT 609 then had trouble getting the mag to set in place. That raises questions for me right there. (Was the grip sleve being pinched? Was it covering the mag release?) Then we don't know if the bullet ricocheted or how all he shot his hand and two other people with one bullet when his hand should not have been near the barrel. Was he holding it by the slide and pounding it like a hammer? Not enough info is supplied.
Well it does sound like Taurus has a problem. Seems that if the Sao Paulo police recalled 98,000 24/7 pistols because they could fire without the trigger being pulled (if dropped or bumped?) then the Officer in Kentucky drops a 24/7 in Kentucky (USA not Brazil, unless there is a Kentucky, Brazil) and it discharges, then they likely have an issue. If the internal defect is common to the guns. It seems they have made some guns that can discharge if dropped or bumped in certain ways.
If Taurus made defective guns then unfortunately the only way to get a redress of grievances is with a lawsuit. Same as with air bags in a car, defective gas tanks that can explode, etc. Had Taurus recognized the issue earlier and recalled the pieces then no issue, but they didn't.
I recall Glock made a couple of undisclosed settlements with their 40 S&W guns before fixing the issue. I'm not sure if they ever owned up that there was an issue.
When S&W began building the Walther PPK/S 1 they made a number of modifications that caused the guns to discharge when using the de-cocker. They issued a recall but only after several thousand had been sold and consumers discovered the problem, at the range while pointing downrange I hope.
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