{"id":2565,"date":"2013-05-16T19:48:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T00:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2013-05-16T19:48:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T00:48:53","slug":"gee-this-seems-to-be-a-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=2565","title":{"rendered":"Gee… this seems to be a trend"},"content":{"rendered":"

*This is another one of those posts that I should probably state that this is purely my opinion and it doesn’t necessarily represent the opinion of WizardPC, who keeps letting me post here for some reason.\u00a0 My information comes solely from the sources that I have linked in this post.\u00a0 If you have not already done so, please follow and read them and come to your own conclusions.<\/em>*<\/p>\n

I’m sure most of you will remember me talking<\/a> about Linoge’s experiences<\/a> with the US Firearms’ ZiP Gun<\/a> (now with response post<\/a>!).\u00a0 Long story short, Linoge was able to reliably pull the trigger and operate the firing pin while the gun was out of battery.\u00a0 This caused a couple rounds to go off while not in battery (.22 ammo in notorious for not going into battery properly in a semi-auto).\u00a0 The President of the company apparently feels that 1. it’s impossible for a rimfire to detonate out of battery (evidence to the contrary), and 2. not having the trigger disconnected unless the gun is in battery is not a problem.<\/p>\n

Well, shortly after that, the fine folks at guns.com reviewed<\/a> the ZiP gun.\u00a0 While they failed to have the out of battery experience that Linoge had, they too noticed that their firearm had this “interesting design feature.”\u00a0 They also had a different malfunction.\u00a0 Their particular T&E item would, randomly, but repeatably, fire 2 rounds per trigger pull!<\/p>\n

I have a theory that it may have not gone into burst mode, but rather the trigger actually got pulled twice.\u00a0 I have not handled this gun, but I could see this happening if the trigger reset is short.\u00a0 Given the… umm… interesting ergonomics of this weapon, plus the fact that it can be fired before it’s fully back into battery could mean that a looser trigger pull could essentially bump fire it.\u00a0 It’s a hair-brain theory, but I’m trying to give the manufacturer the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t really read or heard anything more about this quirky little gun until today, when I tripped over this forum post<\/a>.\u00a0 Someone bought a ZiP gun, took it to the range, and discovered that his 10 round 10\/22 mags were so tight a fit that he needed pliers to remove them (the 25 round mags didn’t work, but that’s to be expected).\u00a0 He reported multiple double shots, and at least one of them had the second round fire so dramatically out of battery that the case of the .22 did a rather good attempt on disintegrating.<\/p>\n

So, it looks like he experienced *both* issues reported by the two previous reviews.\u00a0 I’d say that this is pretty damning evidence that these things should best left on the shelf.<\/p>\n

Please don’t get me wrong.\u00a0 I admire this company for trying a rather radical new design.\u00a0 I would love to say that I’m trying to figure out a way to explain to the wife why I need to add it to my collection.\u00a0 Unfortunately, at this point, all signs point to this being a dangerous product.\u00a0 The most alarming thing is that the company that makes it can’t say that they are not unaware of the issues, and does not seem interested in fixing what is clearly a defective design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*This is another one of those posts that I should probably state that this is purely my opinion and it doesn’t necessarily represent the opinion of WizardPC, who keeps letting me post here for some reason.\u00a0 My information comes solely from the sources that I have linked in this post.\u00a0 If you have not already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}