![]() What they have done is that the safety somehow got pushed off, in the process, they pulled the trigger & not knowing what has just happened, when they retightened this unit the hammer’s top rear corner is now bound up between the bolt sleeve & the head on the rear of the firing pin. They can not get it to come out (usually bending the side rails) so they reassemble it, only to now find that the handle will not operate. This information supplied by a long-time Winchester warranty gunsmith Walter Lodewick.MODEL 100 OPERATING HANDLE FREE BUT NOT RETRACTING ALL THE WAY:- This usually can be attributed to the owner trying to disassemble the gun using the thought that the trigger housing will come out first from the bottom. What you have done is to remove the “cap nut” that holds the gas cylinder into the barrels gas lug, the cylinder being rusted in the operating handle, it will now be retracted out of the lug, allowing the handle to be retracted. ![]() You should now be able to move the operating handle to the rear.
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