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Old 03-17-2017, 12:44 PM
Dpris Dpris is offline
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Back when Ruger came out with their LCP, Ruger said that the pistol could be dry-fired, as they do with their guns.

What Ruger meant was that OCCASIONAL dry-firing would not hurt it.
One guy decided the LCP would be his primary carry gun, and since he felt his primary carry gun had to be dry-fired hundreds & hundreds of times, he did.

And then complained to Ruger when he busted a firing pin, chewing them out for selling an inferior product.

No amount of explaining that the gun was simply not designed or intended for 2000 dry-firing cycles made any dent.

"It's my CARRY gun! I GOTTA dry-fire my CARRY gun! You put out a ***!"

No, it's not a ***. If you feel you HAVE to dry-fire your carry gun thousands of times, pick another carry gun. That's not what the LCP is built for.

I'd say the same idea applies to the Bodyguard .380.
I have two.
They are not high-mileage IPSC guns, but one occasionally gets carried when circumstances dictate the regular M&P won't work.

Neither Bodyguard has been dry-fired more than a handful of times, just to check function or trigger pull.
Neither has malfunctioned at all.

I'd suggest extensive dry-firing be avoided, even with caps.
Busting two pins should be what Sherlock Holmes would call a "clue".
Denis
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