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If the gun starts shooting again after the reload is completed, your problem was either a) you were out of ammunition, or b) the one round was most likely just a bad example of the breed. If that’s the case you simply go on shooting.

If, however, the gun still won’t fire, you might have a broken firing pin, you might have a malfunctioning transfer bar safety, or you might have another serious problem. In any of these cases it’s unlikely that you’re going to be able to solve the problem in the middle of a fight. If that’s the case, you need to do something else. Your training, hopefully, has included preparation for this kind of problem, whether it be drawing a backup gun or relying on a different weapon.

If the trigger won’t move or won’t reset, the first step is the tap-stroke.

Second symptom: Trigger not functioning

There are a lot of things that can go wrong with a revolver, even though they usually don’t. Revolvers are mechanical devices, and any mechanical device can fail. It’s therefore possible that any moving part in the revolver could develop an issue that keeps it from working. Thankfully such things don’t happen very often, but when they do the gun can be rendered inoperative. At the range this isn’t a big issue, but if it happens during a fight it’s imperative that you get the gun up and running (if it can be done) as soon as possible.