[MarkL]

Of course, such a weapon would be extremely dangerous to everyone--including the shooter. For safe operation, locked-breach firearms need a mechanism to ensure that a round cannot be fired before be breech is locked. This is typically handled by disconnecting the trigger from the sear until the bolt carrier is fully forward. Disabling this mechanism may cause such a firearm to fire full auto, but only until it jams on an improperly-ejected or loaded cartridge, blows up from a ruptured casing, stops because the hammer either falls before it can fire a round or else snags on the bolt carrier, or has some other calamity.

Exactly... At a weekly "practicle shooting" match, one of the competitors had a 1911 where the disconnector broke, and on the first trigger pull, all 9 rounds (8+1) were discharged... After a moment's pause, he dropped the magazine and began to reload, but the RSO grabbed him and called a DQ... Pretty cool to watch, actually. But extremely dangerous.

Mark

[freedomlover]

"Pretty cool to watch, actually. But extremely dangerous."

He he . . so would be watching a grenade explode up close but I'll take someone else's word for it.