Some Remington 700's have a design "characteristic" that is resulting in half a dozen wrongful death suits against Remington every year. The problem is that the trigger system's floating transfer bar can get crud, dirt, debris, or ice under it, with the effect of having pulled the trigger, even though the rebound spring's brought the trigger back into "not-pulled" status.
Granted, some bozo's forgotten the rule, "always point the muzzle in a safe direction", puts a round in the chamber, points it at ol' grannie's punkin head and shoves the bolt one way or the other, or puts the safety on or off. The gun thinks the trigger's been pulled, and grannie's head explodes like the proverbial punkin.
The X-Mark Pro trigger system is designed, in part, to eliminate that characteristic. Remington will not say anything to admit liability or treat that characteristic as a design flaw, because, after all, the gun works the way it was designed to work, and if bozo shoots his own grannie, it's his fault, not Remington's.
Remington has never issued any recall campaign, and doesn't have to. Firearms manufacturers are specifically exempt from the Consumer Product Safety Commission's rules.
However, I recently sent mine back to Remington having asked them about it. They replaced the trigger system for free as a "customer goodwill gesture", so I'd be more comfortable with the gun. (I had stopped putting cartridges in it at all, had no intention of using it for anything, and had gone out and bought a Weatherby to replace it with.)
Remington had it back to me in less than a week, including shipping, and it's phenomenal. They were eminently decent about the whole thing, and I couldn't be happier with Remington, now.
