82. The Perfect Trigger (Remington Arms)
Added 2022-06-21 01:35:25 +0000 UTCAmerica's oldest gun manufacturer denies that its most popular product is defective and dangerous.
Prelude: A deadly toy gun is recalled by Family Dollar.
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Hey ACC can you or any valued listeners who see this recommend any good documentaries about guns in the usa?
Zoey Charlemagne
2024-08-17 13:11:34 +0000 UTCNobody should ever be cleaning a firearm that is loaded. You can’t actually clean it with the round chambered anyway. That was stupidity on the part of the incompetent owner and an incredibly heartbreaking case for the victim. There is a reason why responsible ownership involves not storing them loaded.
Aimee Spingath
2024-07-01 04:22:14 +0000 UTCI don’t know shit about guns and I was wondering the same thing. Why the hell was that idiot cleaning a loaded gun?
Cathy Kantor
2022-09-09 21:59:50 +0000 UTCDoes the SAS using Remingtons? I've Got Your Back with Ben Pearson episode SAS Legend Chris Ryan Aug 2, 2022, 42 minutes in
Sarah Meghan
2022-09-09 13:45:28 +0000 UTCBy any chance do you have the name of the video that was Remington’s rebuttal?
Dana Contini
2022-06-27 18:11:18 +0000 UTC👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🙌🙌🙌
Heaven Lansdell
2022-06-25 22:23:52 +0000 UTCThis was one of your best. Absolutely fantastic, well researched, flawless. It's so maddening how true this is also. And evil. I work in the 2nd most regulated industry behind nuclear, medical device manufacturing. (Shout out to the dalcon epi!) I conduct recalls. I'm genuinely proud of the fact I do work for a company that stays vigilant and immediately pulls/corrects products if there's any indication of harm. Im not just saying that either. So im stunned that firearms manufacturers are subject to so little regulatory oversight ... it took them HOW DF LONG to issue a recall !!!??? We get a recall off and running in less than a month!!!!! I hate when corporations dodge recalls as they let people die... ugh. But, well done. Brilliant 👏
Acon Cernczyn
2022-06-23 02:32:00 +0000 UTCShockingly brilliant episode, seems to sum up corporate America in an hour.
TRC
2022-06-22 23:07:13 +0000 UTCThis was an excellent step-by-step how-to course in American Corporate greed and negligence. 1) Deny, deny, deny; 2) Lie by saying "public safety is our highest priority"; 3) Blame the customer/user; 4) Sue everyone who tells the truth about your company and your defective product; 5) Blame someone inside the company who is dead or no longer there. If all that fails, you can always change the company name and hope no one remembers.
Michelle Hebert
2022-06-22 18:29:21 +0000 UTCCamryn Berk -- my favorite product warning was on a curling iron I bought. It said, "Do not use while sleeping." 😖😜
Michelle Hebert
2022-06-22 01:01:30 +0000 UTCOh my, ACC. Hope you really do have that SimpliSafe because all the NRA-worshipping gun fetishists are gonna come after you, now. They cherish their lunatic conspiracy theories about how Democrats are just dying to take away their precious guns and they don't like anyone pointing out how ridiculous that paranoia is.
Michelle Hebert
2022-06-22 00:41:20 +0000 UTCIn the US (with the exception of guns due to the gun lobby of course) product safety is based on what an average person would do. The average person is not assumed to use things correctly. The “average person” is the reason that hair dryers have a tag saying not to take them in the bath. Most people know it is idiotic to try and dry your hair while you are in water, but the tag is there because someone died that way. My point is basically that it doesn’t matter that this person was an idiot cleaning a loaded gun. If it were any other product, in the eyes of US law, if you can imagine a consumer using a product in a stupid way you need to create a safeguard.
Camryn Berk
2022-06-22 00:31:41 +0000 UTCNot blaming the victim because this IS clearly a design defect but... Why was that one person cleaning the rifle with live ammo in it? Or was he just about to remove it? It's like how that death on that movie set shouldn't have happened because all safe practice for film sets doesn't involve pointing real guns at people, much less real guns with real bullets
Iona
2022-06-21 20:30:07 +0000 UTCThis is crazy, I knew Taurus had issues. I haven't finished the episode yet, but I will say they have fix many if not all of their issues.
Sean Gleason
2022-06-21 17:09:24 +0000 UTCScary stuff, even for a Brit, where the population don’t own guns, we leave that to the police and the armed forces. Excellent episode, thank you.
Sally Norris
2022-06-21 15:57:49 +0000 UTCThank you for your hard work
R G
2022-06-21 15:54:21 +0000 UTCIt's the same calculus for drug and car recalls. The cost of lawsuits vs the cost of fixing the product so it doesn't kill people.
Emily P
2022-06-21 14:55:15 +0000 UTCThe memo stating how it would be more financially viable to settle with victims rather than fix the problem 😬😢😳😫😡🤬
Anastasia Martin
2022-06-21 14:25:08 +0000 UTCFull body chills. Everything about this episode is just so deeply upsetting, when will this senselessness end.
Claudia
2022-06-21 05:03:10 +0000 UTCWow. Heavy stuff here. Another great, heart wrenching episode. I need to ask my dad which rifle he has now.
Amie Redman
2022-06-21 03:43:53 +0000 UTCDamn acc on a roll the last few weeks. Heavy and hard hitting episodes.
Summer Gnage
2022-06-21 02:55:37 +0000 UTCI was just repeating what the source said. Don't shoot the messenger. Heh.
Swindled
2022-06-21 02:22:21 +0000 UTCI gotta point this out because it's silently killing me, but the thing that holds ammo in pistols, most rifles, etc, is a magazine, not a clip. Clips are usually (more) disposable things that hold ammo to put into a weapon's internal magazine, such as an M1 Garand's enbloc. *in general* if the ammo is enclosed on all but one side, it's a magazine, if it's exposed on more than that, it's a clip. Then again, knowing you, you may already know this and you're saying it this way to annoy people like me. ACC pls fix 💙
Atoc
2022-06-21 02:10:24 +0000 UTC
