Here’s a turn-around for the anti-freedom fiends. They talk about guns not being regulated for safety. Well first let’s get to the “Gun Death”
Rhode Island company Summer Infant Inc. is recalling 1.7 million baby monitors after two infants were strangled by their electric cords, safety regulators said.
So two children are dead because of a faulty and unsafe product. Compare that to the gun industry. We make jokes about it, but for all the recalls by various gun makers, have you ever heard of anybody killed or injured by an improperly made firearm? Heck a lot of the recalls I’ve read about are from faulty drop-safties, has anybody heard about a gun under recall even discharging a round because of mechanical fault? The closest I can think of (at least in America, I’ve heard a few bits about various foreign rifles) is this hit-peice, which I think is well refuted here.
Oh yeah its the gun industry that’s REALLY unsafe and needs regulation. And of course a strangled baby is vastly better than somebody who might have a handgun that doesn’t have a California or Massachusetts approved Drop-safety.
You have to define what “improperly” means. There are plenty of drop-unsafe firearms on the market today. Probably the most notorious are the cheap derringers.
They’re not being recalled because they are fault or unsafe they are being recalled because they don’t have idiot labels on them.
The idiot labels warn that putting a cord within reach of a small child might result in the child playing with the cable and accidentally hanging itself.
Though I did see some monitors from the same company that had battery melting issues.
I do see your point though. I work at Walmart and part of my job is making sure new recall posters and info get posted at the service desk and boy do I see some good ones. Like a cappuccino maker that might explode due to excessive steam pressure.
Gun recalls are comparatively rare. Heck you don’t even see recalls for ammo that often and that’s something that is made to explode and burn and made in massive quantities.
Yep. I actually have a friend who worked in a coffee shop that was literary DESTROYED by an espresso machine that went KB.
Also as a handloader I know how easy it could be to cook up a batch of dangerous ammo. Wrong powder, wrong powder quantity, wrong bullet, or bullet seated to the improper depth, even crimps that are too strong or weak can cause dangerous pressure levels.
Also too little powder in certain cartridge cases can cause detonation.
The fact that this is VERY rare shows how careful ammo makers are in their QC of their goods.
Hell used to be I’d see a gun blown up (and replaced ) by the Ruskis at Wolf about once a year…haven’t seen one of those in a few years.
Products can be quite dangerous, the fact that people attempt to single out gun makers, while ignoring the rest of the world shows the foolish nature of the “Gun Death” mentality.