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That is not the same thing. A firearm is a very simple device and anyone that owns one should be intelligent enough to know all the parts and their functions and be able to identify problems. If you are not aware of a problem with your firearm, YOU ARE TO BLAME FOR THAT IGNORANCE. not the manufacturer.

Basice maintenance of a firearm is the owners responsibility and if the owner is not smart enough to handle this task....then tough *.

That is not the same thing. A firearm is a very simple device and anyone that owns one should be intelligent enough to know all the parts and their functions and be able to identify problems. If you are not aware of a problem with your firearm, YOU ARE TO BLAME FOR THAT IGNORANCE. not the manufacturer.

Basice maintenance of a firearm is the owners responsibility and if the owner is not smart enough to handle this task....then tough *.

Basic maitenance is indeed the responsiblity of the owner. If the firing pin drops on a chambered round when disengaging the saftey (and it had to be to cycle the round out of the chamber) of the rifle, then it is doing something it wasn't designed to do and I don't think it is the person who buys it place to go tinkering with it, especially if they have no idea what they are doing. Sure cleaning and maintenance. Filing and altering the weapon yourself is asking for trouble unless you are trained and know what you are doing. If my rifle did something like this I would take it to a smith and have it fixed asap. There is no excuse for having the gun pointed in the direction of anything valuable. A gun that fires when disengaging the safety, though, is broken and Remington is offering to fix it.

The assumption that guns as a consumer product is in some other category then a radio or a car, in that the owner is responsible for its servicing when not correctly assembled plays right into the gun grabbers hands. If I'm denied the right to buy Food at a store then I'm being discriminated against, but if I'm denied the right to buy a gun its because I'm ignorant of how to fix a malfunctioning firing pin. I don't believe this, but your argument could be semi-reasonably exteneded to include this line of thought.

To another poster I read In the end anyones opinions regarding the level of rugged-survivalist-lone gunsmith-ness a person has is is irrelevant to whether they should be ALLOWED the LUXARY owning a gun. Owning a gun is not a luxury it is a right, and therfore I shouldn't have to be a gunsmith to exercise this right.

Brian