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To: theDentist

Unlikely. Sometimes when firing automatic machine guns the barrell will get hot enough to cook one off in the chamber but thats only after many many rounds.


8 posted on 02/08/2006 8:20:07 AM PST by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: eastforker; theDentist
Unlikely. Sometimes when firing automatic machine guns the barrell will get hot enough to cook one off in the chamber but thats only after many many rounds.

FWIW, once it's that hot, it's hot enough to char human flesh on contact. (not sure what that works out to in degrees)

17 posted on 02/08/2006 8:43:56 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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