My Dad recently purchased a KP345 for his first handgun. Neither of us have much experience with firearms, and mine only comes from a few encounters with the M4 rifle for Army ROTC training/21 gun salute over the past few years.
My dad was dry firing the gun after he brought it home, but then ran into a road block when he could no longer eject the magazine. He noticed the hammer pivot pin had come loose while he was dry firing. He cannot recall if he dry fired the pistol while the magazine was ejected or not, so we are unsure if the ejector tab was bent (as mentioned in a previous thread: http://rugerforum.net/maintenance/16864-p345-hammer-pivot-pin.html ), but that does not appear to be our problem at the moment
My dad tapped the pin back in after first looking up any potential issues on the internet. However, after he got it seated back in place, he found he could no longer dry fire the weapon. We have dissassembled the pistol, reassembled it, but the problem persists. We can eject the magazine with ease, but we have had the pin come loose again at least once (as before, I can't recall if we had the ejector plate in the forward position at the time). When disassembled, the lower portion of the pistol DOES dry fire, but when reassembled with the slide, it will not fire, which leads us to believe there may be something awry with the safety.
I cycled through several threads here, but it seems that no one else has encountered this problem. The lock detent plunger and safety detent plunger do not allow any movement when the pistol is dissassembled, but with our limited experience, we don't know if that's a problem or not.
We plan to take it back to the firearms store where my dad bought it to brainstorm with the guys there, but I figured we'd find more knowledge floating around here. We don't want to have to send it back and would much rather fix this on our own, but again, we are firearms rookies and we don't want to screw this up.
Please let us know if you have any insight to this issue.
Thanks!
My dad was dry firing the gun after he brought it home, but then ran into a road block when he could no longer eject the magazine. He noticed the hammer pivot pin had come loose while he was dry firing. He cannot recall if he dry fired the pistol while the magazine was ejected or not, so we are unsure if the ejector tab was bent (as mentioned in a previous thread: http://rugerforum.net/maintenance/16864-p345-hammer-pivot-pin.html ), but that does not appear to be our problem at the moment
My dad tapped the pin back in after first looking up any potential issues on the internet. However, after he got it seated back in place, he found he could no longer dry fire the weapon. We have dissassembled the pistol, reassembled it, but the problem persists. We can eject the magazine with ease, but we have had the pin come loose again at least once (as before, I can't recall if we had the ejector plate in the forward position at the time). When disassembled, the lower portion of the pistol DOES dry fire, but when reassembled with the slide, it will not fire, which leads us to believe there may be something awry with the safety.
I cycled through several threads here, but it seems that no one else has encountered this problem. The lock detent plunger and safety detent plunger do not allow any movement when the pistol is dissassembled, but with our limited experience, we don't know if that's a problem or not.
We plan to take it back to the firearms store where my dad bought it to brainstorm with the guys there, but I figured we'd find more knowledge floating around here. We don't want to have to send it back and would much rather fix this on our own, but again, we are firearms rookies and we don't want to screw this up.
Please let us know if you have any insight to this issue.
Thanks!