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I've repeatedly heard the story of Andrew Jackson almost being assassinated, but two guns misfired in a 1 in 100,000 freak event. How are the odds of a pistol (for a certain era) misfiring actually calculated?

by /u/M35Dude in /r/AskHistorians

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