Well, I watched the show . . . in each case where a person was injured/killed by a "malfunction" the rifle was pointed where it shouldn't have been. (One guy
shot his own foot off! Who in their right mind points a loaded rifle at their own foot when loading/unloading/fiddling with it? It's not just unsafe, it's
awkward.)
The incidents mentioned just reinforced my own policy of never allowing the firearm to point at something I'm not willing to destroy. (That's one reason I don't do dry fire practice in my home - without a basement, I don't have a solid wall to use as a backstop, and any bullet I discharge is going to penetrate walls and follow a potentially dangerous trajectory.)
On the other hand, there was a fair amount of information presented that seemed to be the sort of thing that makes you take notice and go "Hmmmm . . .
?" Unless they were faked, the videos of M700s going off in the hands of police/military shooters without the trigger being pulled looked pretty damning.
My own take is that yes, there could be a trigger/safety malfunction, but its going to be very rare . . . sort of like "The Lock" self-actuating on recent S&W revolvers. In each case, it's the sort of thing the manufacturer
could have and
should have have fixed, but didn't.