The Gun Went “Click … Click … Bang”
BY Herschel Smith
10 years ago
Via Uncle, via Jovian Thunderbolt, The Firearm Blog has this video:
Yankee Marshal doesn’t really do a complete job of explaining to you why officer Darren Wilson’s gun went “click … click … bang.” Neither does Jovian Thunderbolt, and neither does Uncle.
Yes, the gun went out of battery, but the point is that the Sig P229 is a SA/DA pistol. This wouldn’t be true of other semi-automatic pistols that are not SA/DA.
On December 5, 2014 at 7:59 am, Sez Eye said:
So where is your video explaining this?
On December 5, 2014 at 11:02 am, Herschel Smith said:
When I read your comment I thought perhaps I linked up a *.jpg instead of the video. Nope. The video is there. I didn’t propose to do a video myself, I linked his video. I added to the explanation by pointing out that the Sig was a SA/DA pistol. That’s what I said I would do.
You didn’t have enough coffee this morning?
On December 5, 2014 at 2:51 pm, Lina Inverse said:
Per a bunch of sources the P299 has a spiffy DAO option. I confess ignorance, being a M1911 type since my teens.
On December 10, 2014 at 6:48 pm, Sez Eye said:
I had plenty. You just missed my point. It is easy to criticize others when they create original content. I just couldn’t find anything that you have provided, contemporaneous to the video that you criticized, that could have provided your readers information to explain the gun’s failure to fire. Pretty lame IMO. Criticism in this case was not necessary, providing the additional information would have been plenty.
On December 5, 2014 at 8:27 pm, Archer said:
I read the transcript of Darren Wilson’s testimony before the grand jury. At some point – I forget if it was after the first or second click (I believe the second, but could be wrong) – he described performing a malfunction-clearing action, cycling the slide. The gun went “Bang” soon after.
I’ve not heard whether or not a loose .40 S&W round was found rolling around inside the car, so I give it a 50/50 chance there wasn’t a round chambered when he began his patrol, as there should have been.
But that’s just my guess.
On December 6, 2014 at 9:43 am, Lina Inverse said:
I’ve been following the details of the grand jury testimony through the postings of the excellent Andrew Branca on the Legal Insurrection blog, who’s been reading through all of them.
As best as he and we can figure out (please ask for more details if you want), it’s most likely Brown’s hand was on the slide when the first shot was fired, and prevented the gun from fully cycling. The second and final shot inside the car was done after more failures to fire from pulling the trigger, after which Wilson manually cycled the slide.
I didn’t check for this, but as I recall no unfired rounds were recovered from the scene aside from those produced when Wilson unholstered and cleared his weapon prior to putting it into an evidence bag.