This thread is a reprise of an almost identical post several years ago. No hard data then either.
IF there was anything in it as a statistically valid, worrisome problem, we should expect to see several very visible repurcussions. The manufacturers and the distributors and sellers of the rifles and ammo would be tied up in court with dozens of product liability suits. And the gun hating media and the ambulance chasers we put in Congress would be in full cry to boot. Recalls would be inescapable. None of this has happened.
Of course, the UN paratroops have not landed on the South Lawn yet either, or have they?
I currently own no WBYs or WBY magnum rifles. One I did own proved to be a barrel eater but WBY replaced the barrel free because they said, on examination, it did not meet their standards. The experience was a draw.
