If Martin reached for the gun and managed to grab the slide its not a stretch of the imagination to day thatcould have malfunctioned the gun. It also still put the shot in the intermediate range they keep talking about. Most self defense shootings have some element of the magic 3's. 3 feet, 3 shots, 3 seconds. If you are defending yourself its unlike you are taking a long shot so I don't understand why the sensationalism of this intermediate range? *edit scruit corrected that the round was ejected....