M&P 15/22s Banned At Appleseed Events

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M&P 15/22s Banned At Appleseed Events

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M&P 15/22s Banned At Appleseed Events After Out Of Battery and “Run Away” Discharges

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A warning was issued a short time ago on the Appleseed instructor forum that the popular Smith & Wesson 15-22 is banned from Project Appleseed events nationwide after a series of out of battery discharges recorded at several events.

To: All Appleseed Instructors

Subject: TEMPORARY BAN ON SMITH & WESSON M&P 15/22 USE AT APPLESEED

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, THE USE OF SMITH AND WESSON M&P 15/22’S AT AN APPLESEED IS HEREBY BANNED UNTIL SMITH & WESSON FORMALLY INVESTIGATES THE PROBLEM AND ISSUES AN OFFICIAL CORRECTIVE ACTION. THE AOC WILL NOTIFY THE CADRE WHEN THIS BAN IS LIFTED.

The AOC has received a rash of reports regarding safety issues with the Smith & Wesson M&P 15/22, including a shooter getting injured as a result of an out-of-battery discharge (see reports below).

As responsible Instructors, we have a duty to maintain safety at our events. If we know a rifle to be potentially unsafe, we shouldn’t allow it on the line at all.

At this time the least risk course of action would be to exclude the Smith & Wesson M&P 15/22 from future events until Smith & Wesson formally investigates the problem and issues an official corrective action.
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Re: M&P 15/22s Banned At Appleseed Events

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Interesting....we have several thousands rounds through ours without issue, but survey size of one. It will be interesting to see if a limited issue or a widespread issue.
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Post by TSiWRX »

I'm interested to see where this goes, too. I got one for Anna/myself just this past summer. It had some FTE issues, but that was easily worked out with a little tweak to the extractor/ejector.

I haven't had any OOB or runaway trigger experiences, yet, and the gun has seen probably around 1K rounds, now.

Thanks for bringing this one up, JustaShooter.
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