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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Right, why risk it? Instead:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Boy lookit me here, I've been a big dummy storing my Glock in there instead of the awkwardly sized pizza tray and roasting pan. I sure do feel silly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

who in the right mind would put a gun inside a oven???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The next scene is the best part!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

oh fuck I had forgotten this one. I can hear the voice in my head too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

So, the article isn't specific enough to explain whether or not the 5 rounds actually fired or cooked off.

Normally, ammo is said to 'cook off' (the irony in this specific situation is literally physically painful to me) when the gunpowder in the cartridge is heated enough that it deflagrates, usually with less of a total and rapid burn than when a gun is normally fired.

This is because primers (the substance that is actually struck by the firing pin and actually explodes, thus setting off the rest of the gunpowder to deflagrate) typically have much higher temperature thresholds before they will react than the gunpowder itself.

Basically what this usually means is that when ammo cooks off, it is still quite dangerous, but the bullets will have lower velocities than normal, less predictable trajectories.

I'd be curious to know whether the round in the chamber cooking off actually successfully had enough energy to cycle the action and load a subsequent round, or if half of them just exited from the magazine and handgrip.

Either way this is an extraordinarily stupid thing to do, jfc.

I thought it was bad when my idiot roommate left a pan of nachos and the plastic spatula in the oven after telling me she cleaned the kitchen. Went to preheat the next day and... oh. She did not clean the kitchen, now our spatula is molten and my chance of getting cancer has increased somewhat.

I guess thats not as bad as a fucking gun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Found another one of JD's grandma's guns. She was fun.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Words cannot begin to convey the level of stupidity required for this to be true

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well that's just dumb as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

They're practicing for the Darwin Award Olympics...