Obtained by CBS4 News, the confidential sheriff's department document outlines a series of incidents in which problems with the Glock firing pin caused the gun to malfunction and not fire.

Colt’s Manufacturing subsequently ... essentially the original model 17 at heart. Glock pistols eschew the traditional hammer and firing pin system especially common to older pistols for a ...

More important to our discussion of the Series 70 guns, the firing pin system was exactly the same one used since 1911. Do not be confused by Colt's experimental use of the Schwartz safety system ...

In 2012, the U.S. Marine Corps Marine Special Operations Command adopted the Colt M45A1 ... will both cock the pistol and release the firing pin, firing the pistol. Users can also operate ...