Moral of the story: test your gear.

Darth said:

Testing is always great, but i go with the mindset "something is going to fail. "

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Yep.

That_FNG said:

For me a light, optic or gun has to go 1k rounds with no failures before I’m willing to conceal carry it.

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I have no issue with the practice, and of course I believe in testing with any different ammo you're going to carry and all that, but one can also just as logically look at it like you've then put 1000 rounds of wear and tear on parts that might have an issue, so they may be 5 rounds away from breaking rather than 1005.
You just don't know. Stuff is gonna fail.

That_FNG said:

Absolutely stuff is going to break. We all have a diffferent comfort level of expectations for what stuff should be expected to last before failure. My point is more don’t just buy something and assume it’s going to work without some sort of use testing. For me it is 1k rounds, for others it may be more, it may less, and that is perfectly fine. For me I do expect a WML to go longer than a couple of hundred rounds before failing.

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Sure, yeah. I'd be pretty displeased with that too for sure.

spat said:

When it comes to probability, no matter how good your odds are, if roll the dice often enough, eventually they'll come up snake eyes.

But, when the odds are unknown, repeated success will give you confidence that the odds of failure are low.

If it's been successful 1000 times in the row, you're confidence that it won't fail on 1001.

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A bit off topic, but on that idea I wanted to drop the suggestion for a book for folks to read for people to understand this in ways that they don't even know they don't understand. It might just blow your mind. It's called Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences , written by John Allen Paulos. Not a hugely long read either, like 170 pages os something close to that.

Blurb from amazon - "Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it. Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing."

IMHO, absolutely worth the short read. I read this many years ago and still think about it where numbers are concerned in regard to so many things. It was written in 1988, so there's some ideas that aren't exactly current, but they're not important to get the points.