I heard that there was Testimony by Officer Wilson, that duing the struggle with Brown in the car, he unholstered his pistol and pulled the trigger two times with nothing happening. Third time it went off and didn't hit anyone, but scared the crap out of both of them.
Ok, what happened THERE? Click click bang? Talk about pucker factor. How can that even happen with what was clearly a semi auto, based on other evidence.
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Wild speculation on my part: maybe it wasn't fully in battery; dislodged during the struggle maybe?
yeah, i'd want to check various ways to reproduce that behavior, but then again i can barely think of a safe-ish way to do that.
Simple. THe slide was pushed back. The sig has a disconnector similar to the one on a 1911 that prevents the firing pin from moving if the slide is out of battery. The trigger still cocks and releases the hammer.
Same thing can happen on a 1911 except that the hammer won't fall.
In struggling distance, good chance of there being some pressure on the end of the barrel, which will take just about any semi-auto out of battery. Might have been a double action trigger to allow multiple chances, or just far enough out of battery to keep the trigger from engaging.
The Sig P series pistols are true double action, hammer fired pistols. If the pistol was slightly out of battery (which like others is the only reason that comes to mind) he could pull the trigger and get the clicks, then bang when he pulled it after it went into battery. I found it interesting, in reading his testimony, that he remembered finding and watching his sights on the last shot which stopped the fight.
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