By the way, there's no way to properly handle a loaded rifle that discharges when you touch the bolt to unload the gun -- as there is no "safe" place to point a high-powered rifle -- as one gunsmith noted on the show.

If you point a high-powered rifle into the ground, there's no telling what it might hit -- and where it might riccochet -- if it fires without pulling the trigger. You can't point it at the horizon -- or into the floor.

So HOW do you handle it safely -- IF there's such a design flaw in the rifle?

There IS simply NO safe direction...

If you can't unload it without taking the safety off -- and moving the bolt jiggles the trigger connector, causing a potential accidental discharge -- then just about the only safe place to work the action is pointing the barrel into a 10-foot deep stack of wet newspapers...

(Probably the most damning thing for Big Green was the 700 discharging in the courtroom -- as noted in the CNBC report. Remington's only hope there was proving somebody had tampered with the gun...)