Failure to Feed: Or double feed Where the round has failed to enter the chamber/breach resulting in a squishy trigger feeling no mechanics, the slide will be slightly open with a visible malfunction.

Causes:

Magazine or ammunition issue: where the magazine or round has not been seated correctly and or the breach is extremely dirty with a built up deposit or carbon, stopping the round from entering the breach, sometimes a spent round can get stuck in the barrel and this will also cause a failure to feed.

Fixing the Failure to Feed or Double Feed

MAG OUT MAG IN AND TAP & RACK –

First bring the firearm into your workspace, then strip the magazine from the firearm taking it all the way out, this may allow the miss-fed round to fall out, with the same magazine place it back into the firearm essentially (TAPPING) the magazine and then racking the new round into the chamber.

Failure to Eject: where a round refuses to exit the firearm after being fired and gets stuck in the chamber.

Causes:

Ammunition or component failure: if the wrong ammunition for the firearm is placed in the gun and fired, this can cause the casing to swell and get lodged in the breach. Or the extractor has failed to pull the spent round out.

Fixing the Failure to Eject

CHOP – NEW MAG TAP & RACK –

First bring the firearm to your workspace, then if the magazine is stuck, chop it out by holding the magazine release button down and slamming your wrist into our support hand, essentially forcing the magazine out the firearm, this will cause the magazine to fall on the floor. We then proceed to place a new magazine in the firearm and TAP & RACK