[RoosterRedux]

“Semi-automatic weapons do not jam.”

In all due respect to the hero, my AR has jammed before.

[rktman]

Semi-autos do not jam? I will call a meeting to set certain violators of this straight this afternoon. 🙀😹

[Myrddin]

Agreed. Bad feeds from a magazine can pile up unfired cartridges between bolt and chamber preventing the bolt from closing or a round from chambering. A failure to extract can leave brass in the chamber with the next round jammed between the bolt face and the case head of the brass still in the chamber. Whatever the cause, it presents an opening where the malfunction leaves the shooter temporarily disarmed.

The Rabbi kept a loaded firearm in the building and made sure off-duty law enforcement members of the congregation were aware of the location. An off duty Border Patrol officer fetched it and gave chase to the shooter.

[BuffaloJack]

“Semi-autos do not jam?”
The “piece-o-crap” M16 they issued me, jammed in no less than 2 firefights when I was in Vietnam. Talk about a helpless feeling.

[walkingdead]

“Semi-automatic weapons do not jam.”

Ones with basically straight walled casings do.

Ever wonder why AK’s seldom (read never) jam? Ever wonder why the magazines are curved like a banana?

Tapered casings gentlemen, tapered casings.

The early M16 had additional problems due to a late change in powder, effecting timing, but that long straight walled case is still problematic to this day.