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I have a 1970's model 700 ADL 30-06. I have done some trigger work on it, and the 700 can go off if someone jacked with the trigger and made it too sensitive. Most of them come from the factory with about a 6lb pull, but after the trigger job, mine's close to 2lbs. Go any lighter than that, and it can go off. Best way to test it is with any empty chamber and bang the butt of the rifle on the floor a couple times with the safety off. I don't mind the safety feature the way it is, but it does make me feel better to not have to take the safety off to open the bolt. I don't want to glass my action and resight it in, so I'll just leave mine the way it is.

Perhaps I misunderstood this article. I thought that this was in reference to the new, improved Remington 700 bolt system that has this really putrid little hole in the bolt shroud that is key-activated to lock the firing pin. Am I wrong? I have several of the older pre-firing pin safety units and I seem to remember that I did not have to snap the trigger safety off in order to open the bolt.

My take on this was that the woman could not open the bolt until she inserted the key and unlocked the firing pin stop. Before she did this, she moved the trigger safety lever to the front, and as soon as she unlocked the firing pin safety, the gun supposedly discharged when "her finger was nowhere near the trigger." It could also be that somebody tried to "lighten" up the factory trigger pull and went a little too far. Below about three pounds of pull, the gun can fire with a round in the chamber when the bolt is merely closed. I've seen it happen. Its not clear from this article just what the sequence of events was.