Some of y'all may remember the incident where a "malfunction", but I rather call it the Grace of God, saved one of our local deputies, Packy Dempsey's life. For those that aren't familiar with this, Packy was going to arrest a drug dealer and they got into a fight. The bad guy got his gun but in the tussle for it the slide was racked back just enough to cause a stovepipe. Bad guy kept pointing and pulling the trigger but nothing was happening. This gave Packy enough time to get his backup and fatally shoot the bad guy. This was in the early 90's. The whole incident was on video from a camera mounted on the vehicle dashboard, which Packy paid for and put in himself. After this the County started putting them in all their vehicles. The video is still out there and has been on a number of police shows if you can find it. It started showing up everywhere so I believe Packy got it copywrited to control access. BTW, there is no doubt that this saved his butt in the political climate in Selma at the time.
A stovepipe to me is after a round has been fired it gets caught in the slide's breech face.
So there was a round fired in the tussle, or after the bad guy got the pistol which caused a "stove pipe"?
God Bless,
David B.