Originally Posted by wildcat1

I went to the range with a guy and his new LC9 that he had just bought this weekend. It did not shoot a full mag without 2 or 3 hang fires. We tried several different types of ammo and same results. He is going to call Ruger in the morning. Any thought on what could be causeing the problem?

a hangfire is ALWAYS an ammo issue not the gun..... a hangfire is a delay between firing pin impact and ignition of the primer. so in laymans terms, you pull the trigger and the bullet fires after a delay.

if this is what happened, its ammo

if this isnt what happened, you probably should describe what happened in detail.....

it looked like the firing pin did not hit the primer or even dent the primer

that is a failure to fire, a totally different animal and it could be anything from a broken firing pin to a hammer spring needing replaced

or it could just need cleaning.... did he clean all the factory gunk from inside the firing pin channel ?

It looked clean to me I thought it might be a spring becasue it does not do it all the time

Originally Posted by wildcat1

It looked clean to me I thought it might be a spring becasue it does not do it all the time

any and all of the above can cause intermittent failure to fire , INCLUDING a broken firing pin.

Did you clean it before you shot it if not looking clean and being clean arent the same thing. I would eliminate that first.

RCG

I had the exact same problem on my first time out with the LC9. Later on close inspection, I found there was a flake of some material partially blocking the firing pin hole. A good cleaning and a change of ammo cleared the problem. Close inspection, show the flakes were red in color and it was being picked up off of the primer of the ammo I was using. The primers where red. I switched over to Winchester ammo and now after almost 200 rounds, there has not been a recurrence of the problem.

thanks for the help I will let him know what you have said
thanks