That is delving pretty deep to pull up that information. Pev owner comment goes back to the tripmine source code. The tripmines won't work on the planter if there is a owner. They are immune to them. How familiar are you with this weapon please? The post leaves me with the impression it is running as designed. The backfiring from over-charging, ricochets, and shooting too close to friends will fry you too.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/hal...s/tripmine.cpp
edict_t *m_pRealOwner;// tracelines don't hit PEV->OWNER, which means a player couldn't detonate his own trip mine, so we store the owner here.
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