Parker hard to open

[B. Dudley]

Springs would make no sense to me as having anything to do with it.

[edgarspencer]

Sometimes, excessive wear to the ends of the firing pins makes them somewhat more pointed, than rounded. Chedite primers are often punctured. I had this happen a bit too often on a gun, so I just touched the points up with a diamond file, rounding them slightly. Never happened again.