The U.S. Air Force ordered a service-wide safety inspection of every single one of its M18 pistols after one discharged and killed an airman last month at an Air Force base.

The decision, announced late last week, came more than a week after Airman Brayden Lovan was killed in an incident at F.E. Warren Air Force Base involving a M18. Lovan, 21, died July 20 after a M18 pistol discharged. Lovan, who served with the 90th Security Forces Squadron, 90th Security Forces Group, at the Wyoming air base, was identified by the Air Force four days later. The incident is currently under investigation.

Now the Air Force is taking its largest action yet in response to Lovan’s death, enacting safety inspections of the approximately 125,000 M18 pistols in its arsenal.

“The Air Force directed the servi

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