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
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.
“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.
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.
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!!!
Geeez—was this guy a democrat?
A single bullet rocked a neighborhood?
Technically speaking, blow torches have not been used since the 50’s or 60’s. What our brilliant media has done is invented words for acetylene, propane and MAP gas torches much like they invented “box cutter” to describe a common utility knife.
Sorry for the rant, I have a pet peeve for the mindless media.
Sounds like it may have been a MK211 Raufoss round.
An M20 APIT projectile contains powdered magnesium and strontium peroxide. It will go boom if heated with a torch.
Now why in the hell did he take a torch to it? Should just hit it a couple of times with a hammer!
What kind of bullet explodes?