P-32 failure to re-set trigger

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At about round 225, the trigger failed to re-set on my Kel-Tec P-32. Upon ignition of the round, the weapon cycled OK but the next trigger pull failed to release the hammer. The trigger pulled back against spring pressure and realsed forward to its resting position for three tries. I partially dropped the magazine and re-inserted it. The trigger then worked properly on the next try.

Could the trigger bar hung up on the magazine somehow? Has anyone else experienced this problem? I fired about 30 more rounds without further problem, but I no longer trust the pistol without identifying and correcting the cause. As a weapon of last recourse, it must be absolutely reliable for me to consider carrying it.

Thanks in advance for any advice offered.
 
You may have short stroked the triggger. With mine I was shooting it one day and had the same thing happen and found that if you short stroke the trigger then it won't re-set and then you have a failure to fire. Then when you recycled the slide you recocked the pistol and it worked okay. I don't think that the P-32's have double strike capability. It's either goes the first time or you have to recycle the slide to cock the hammer.
 
I don't think that any Glock
has re-strike capability. Thats
why they are not accepted as a
Military Sidearm and were
excluded from the US Pistol Trails
to select a 9mm to replace the 1911
If you encounter a round with
a hard primer with a glock it may
or it maynot fire.If it don't fire and you instinctively pull the
trigger again,still SILENCE.
Not so with my Beretta 92 with
one of the HEAVIEST HAMMER BLOWS in
the gun world.The 92 was designed to ignite any and all sorts of ammo
from around the world.
If by a slim chance my 92 meets
a really hard primer,a secound pull
of my 92 trigger will send it off.
Ponty
 
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