I just got done watching many clips of security video footage where the victim tries to wrestle the gun away from the assailant during a robbery. Now I will assume this footage is “hand picked” but not once did the gun fire and I am wondering why. I have seen video of Victor Marx disarm (that could be an entire subject on its own) but I always have in my head that if you tried something like that the gun would fire. However in the real life footage over and over the gun does not fire because of the struggle. The footage I watched shows a good variation of fire arms from 44mag revolver to 9mm Glock even shot gun. So I can’t say it’s a single action vs double action. Is it possible that a portion of assailants in this footage did not have their finger on the trigger? Is it just random luck?
Many years ago I remember a story of an officer getting into a struggle with an armed assailant during a traffic stop the officer was pushed down into the car and the gun fired while his hand was on the barrel. The result was burns on his hand, blinded and deaf he just tried to yell into his radio office down because he couldn’t hear his own voice. His account was very powerful and after hearing it I felt that a disarming action probably only has a very slim chance of working. In the officers case it did save his life but it was far from the action hero image most people have.
I know many “defense experts” show how to disarm an assailant but what’s the reality of it?