Broke my gun dry firing

In the OPs case, I suspect it is yet another Nork quality control issue.
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Well, I guess SIG also has the same quality control issue. I was at the range (pembroke) 2 years ago. A guy came out with his brand new 226, he put 3 mags through it, halfway through the fourth mag, the firing pin broke. I have also seen a firing pin break on an armalite AR with very low rounds. The bottom line is, it can happen, with any manufacturer.
 
Soooo, the lesson here is ..... don't repeatedly dry fire your gun without a snap cap in place. :D Isn't this easy enough to understand?
 
punkrockboy said:
Well, I guess SIG also has the same quality control issue. I was at the range (pembroke) 2 years ago. A guy came out with his brand new 226, he put 3 mags through it, halfway through the fourth mag, the firing pin broke. I have also seen a firing pin break on an armalite AR with very low rounds. The bottom line is, it can happen, with any manufacturer.
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Exactly... and again many replies in here are typical of the senseless anti-norinco crap.
 
:runaway: OMG...one firing pin broke in all the millions of times people have dry fired their guns....everyone take note...DO NOT DRY FIRE. :rolleyes:
 
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but when I hear a gun dry firing, it doesn't sound right/normal. If it doesn't sound right, maybe you should stop doing it.

Then again I wouldn't know, I've never broken a firing pin dry firing. Could it be it's because I just don't do that without snap caps?

... but yeah, don't sweat it, it's just a 10$ part .... until it damages something else more expensive because of it.

It's not like any of us use guns to protect life and limb anyway. :) Yup.
 
my ruger 10-22 dry fires every time the mag runs out... eek

My tokarev tt-33 firing pin keeper broke after dry firing. I replaced it with a cotter pin for now.
 
I think we can bury this thread already. Aside from the unintelligent and useless necropost on page 7 (really, who resurrects a thread to add "lol hahahaha"), the NP34 has long since been replaced by a real SIG.

And I bought snap caps. :p
 
Once a month if you dry fire it you'll be ok. If you're playing with it, looking in the mirror and doing the "are you talking to me?" scene from taxi driver over and over you're going to break something eventually. Dry fire it 1000 times and you'll just add wear to the gun, which is what the ops stated he was trying to do in the first place. So, was it cheaper than a trigger job?
 
I dry fire mine on occasion both rifle and pistol, however I always use a spent cartridge to do this to take up the strain on the firing pin, You can usually dry fire two or three times on a spent cartridge before replacing it with a new spent cartridge as the indent increase each time you dry fire the firearm.
 
Wow, my finger is sore. I just got done dry firing my Glock about 100 times, My Sig about 20 times, and my Delta Elite about 50 times. I do this on a regular basis. i've been doing it for over 30 years. I don't do it with rifles, because there's no point to it. Handguns, on the other hand, take a lot of practice, and eliminating the big bang makes it easier to see your mistakes. I suppose I should buy some snap caps, but then again, 30 years without a single problem makes it hard to get excited.
 
AK said:
I think we can bury this thread already. Aside from the unintelligent and useless necropost on page 7 (really, who resurrects a thread to add "lol hahahaha"), the NP34 has long since been replaced by a real SIG.

And I bought snap caps. :p
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Are you interested in selling that broken NP34?
 
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