I know I have a number of readers who are current or former law enforcement personnel. Many of them carry Winchester duty or defensive ammunition. For their benefit, I pass on this warning about an FBI recall of some Winchester .40 S&W duty ammunition.
The FBI is working with Winchester on a potentially serious condition affecting all recently produced .40 S&W, Winchester, Q4355, 180grain, Bonded SERVICE ammunition. Some of the cartridge casings were produced without a flash hole. This condition completely eliminates the ability of this Service cartridge to fire.
This is a silent killer in that no visual inspection by FBI personnel can detect this manufacturing defect and it would only be known at the time the Agent attempted to fire their handgun. A limited number of problems have been reported: however, this is such a dangerous condition [that] immediate action across the FBI is necessary.
Affected ammunition will have a four character 'day code', two letters, two numbers, i.e., FA 42. All Q4355 with day codes beginning with the letter F and any Q4355 with the two letter combination of EN are included in this recall. This ammunition must be removed from FBI service weapons and magazines IMMEDIATELY.
Again, boxed ammunition with the following codes must be removed from service IMMEDIATELY:
- Product Code: Q4355
- Day Code: Any code beginning with F or EN
You'll find the announcement here, along with comments from other users.
Peter
Is that the ammo issued to the IRS and the TSA? Dear sweet lord I do hope so.
ReplyDeleteHow on earth to they make a cartridge case without a flash hole? Isn't the process reliably automated? Isn't there some kind of quality control? Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteThis is the conflation of a recent FBI ammo return and a two-year (or more) old urban myth.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.glocktalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1434998
Hey, thanks for that, Tam. It seemed improbable.
ReplyDelete