Posted on 03/23/2015 6:05:09 AM PDT by rellimpank
A 25-year-old military reservist, his sister and his parents were injured when he used a blow torch to light a machine gun bullet that exploded in his backyard Saturday night and rocked a neighborhood in north
Police responded to the 50 block of Timber Lane about 9:45 p.m. after multiple 911 calls came from people reporting their homes and windows were "shaking" during a "loud explosion," said Cmdr. George Moravec of the Lindenhurst Police Department.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Here - Hold muh’ beer.
I would have guessed that a bullet would not burn, even under the heat of a blowtorch. Maybe this bullet was made from a special kind of lead, or perhaps is was an incendiary armor-piercing cop-killer green-tip special bullet for an AK-47 pump-action 12 gauge fully automatic Glock machine gun.
I wish journalists knew at least a little about the weapons and ammo that they hate so much.
All due respect to the reservist, but the timing of this: Saturday at 10:45 pm, suggests there may have been some beer involved...
whats a machine gun bullet(singular) and how does it rock a neighbor hood..Me missing something
I bet it was an API bullet with tracer.
Read the article. It WAS a tracer round, and from what I gather, just the projectile (the “bullet,” not the whole round).
a blow torch to light a machine gun bullet
Now that’s some thinkin’ ahead, raht dere.
You don’t just get to take military ammunition home with you. This guy is in trouble.
New Darwin candidate.
“rocked a neighborhood in north.. Police responded to the 50 block of Timber Lane about 9:45 p.m. after multiple 911 calls came from people reporting their homes and windows were “shaking” during a “loud explosion,”
Rocked a neighborhood,,,windows and homes shaking,,,
From one popcorn explosion, of one round of ammo.
—In my world, the “projectile” is the “bullet” in a .50 caliber round-—and I did read the article—
Well, that’s as clear as the Mississippi running through New Orleans. Guess the guy isn’t too bright after all. Don’t think this video shows “tracer” rounds or not but it is pretty thorough in showing what happens when ammo is burned .
http://www.saami.org/videos/sporting_ammunition_and_the_firefighter.cfm
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
It was a tracer round coated with whatever they use now instead of phosphor
—yep—surprised there wasn’t any reference to “with the power to level a city block” or some such—
As a kid we managed to get a loose round to discharge but the bullet harmlessly dropped to the ground a few feet away...but the cartridge case shot away like a rocket to infinity....I was 12 by the way and we didn’t try that again.
We must ban all ammunition!!!
All this mayhem from the unrestrained burning of what appears to be a tracer projectile from a .50 BMG.
I call BS.
I have watched piles of this crap burn...and unless it is "restrained", there will be no explosion.
Now, dropping it in a into a steel water pipe while it is burning and then capping the pipe...that will make an amusing "pop", but it ain't going to rock a neighborhood and your windows probably won't shake, unless it's your big mouthed wife trying to spoil your fun by screaming about her concern over what the neighbors will think.
But I have no first hand knowledge of any of this.
It's only what I read on the internet.
And blowtorches!!
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