To answer your question, no, I would not want a known defective, loaded gun pointed at my head. Nobody I know would want any firearm ever pointed at their head. That question struck me as needlessly offensive. I was just making the point that the failure rate is actually extremely low. I am sure it does not seem low if you are one of the people who got one of those guns, but to me it seems very low. Even if there are 100 times the actual failures as reported, it is still low. I wish all the stuff I bought had a failure rate that low. I think it will be hard for them to come up with something better. I do hope the Remington fix for this issue has a better failure rate than the issue it is fixing. I wonder what the rate on other popular weapons is? I have seen and heard a few NDs in my time around military camps but they never take the possibility of equipment failure into account when dealing with the responsible individual.
“That question struck me as needlessly offensive. I was just making the point that the failure rate is actually extremely low.”
I find it offensive that you would say to those that have died due to a bad trigger design that their loss is acceptable because it is a “low” failure rate.
The fact is, and I say this again, it isn’t the 120 or so “reported” failures, it is the massive outpouring of complaints they have received about trigger failures, and it isn’t low. It is inherent in every single trigger. Some experienced a failure and others were simply lucky not to have. The trigger has a significant flaw in its design. It doesn’t matter if everyone experienced it failing or not.