So could a rimfire firearm be designed to be infallible?
For example lets say that the gun dry fires upon striking of the rimfire primer with the firing pin or hammer?
How do you then make it infallible?
Ideally you would have enough stored energy in the gun from either blowback or gas based spring compression that the gun mechanism then recognizes there has not been an igniting of primer upon release of trigger.
Hence mechanically that stored energy is used to:
1. Strike the rim-fire cartridge with a second firing pin.
2. Eject the dud and load a new cartridge!
Yep, I was an Expert Marksman Letterman on the Whitefish Bay High School Rifle Team!
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