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It's probably because you left the rifle in the car for days (BAD idea BTW). I doubt it has anything to do with the primers. Most likely the firing pin lacked the energy required to detonate the primer. Strip the grease (make sure you include the firing pin channel in the bolt) and replace with a quality low-viscosity oil. I usually do this mid-NOV and return to greases mid-MAY. I've been using Slip 2000 EWL or Lucas Extreme Duty Gun Oil (because I keep receiving free samples that are convenient for the range bag) but almost anything will work. (Literally almost anything - "secret formulas" include 50/50 Mobile 1 Synthetic and a high detergent ATF - amazingly inexpensive if you don't mind ending up with a 10 year supply of the stuff.)
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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