Posted on 04/01/2018 11:19:30 AM PDT by rogerantone1
In Episode 15 of Season 6 (March 22, 2018), Chicago Fire shows scenes where a man’s ammunition is set off by a fire. Bullets shoot everywhere, seriously wounding both the man’s mother and a fireman.
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They did find that champagne bottles cooking off can be impressive - not to mention water heaters with the safeties capped.
Not always the casings ,as vol. fireman in a rural community many moons ago ,we had a few men hit with primers . We worried more about aerosol cans blowing-up ,seen them go 30-40 feet in the air or come threw a window like a rocket.
I dont watch that show.
Ran a call once with large store of cooking ammo. Without pressure containment of the shell body and a rifled cylinder to direct the bullet the velocity is not generated. Still scary and metal can still fly from exploding cartridge casings, no cool.
I saw that episode!
Egg-zackerly.
You guess wrong; see other replies.
I wonder which is more dangerous for a Firefighter, being Injured by Boxes of Cartridges in a Fire or Dying of Electrocution using the Jaws of Life to save a Liberal Envirowack trapped in an Electric Car?
If it were true then thousands of firemen and others would have been killed and injured over the decades, it would have made the news dozens of times and many laws would have been passed to deal with it. Laws with strong bi-partisan support, NRA support and the support of gun owner’s in general.
None of that has ever happened.
mv = mv
I’ve looked around a bit more since my previous post. A number of sources say that the brass often fragments into small, flying pieces. So I think I’ll stand behind my “mini hand grenade” comment.
The key word here is “mini”. The pieces of brass - if any - would be small and light.
Trump Tells N.R.A. Convention, ‘I Am Going to Come Through for You
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/us/politics/donald-trump-nra.html
President Donald Trump took a hammer to Republicans’ usual talking points Wednesday, suggesting authorities skirt “due process” to seize guns from people who pose a public safety risk and accusing GOP lawmakers of being too “afraid” to stand up to the National Rifle Association.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/28/trump-guns-nra-gop-pat-toomey-430782
Bump stock ban via edict was found to be unlawful by the Obama Administration. Prominent firearms researcher and expert John Lott panned the NCIS fix. Special orders to take guns without warrant is an infringement.
But worst of all Trumps backsliding has opened the way for downstream Republicans to do the same as has happened in Florida and Vermont with clear Constitutional infractions.
From Trump, crickets. Hearing protection act, dead. Reciprocity, dead.
On the other hand, piss poor appointments he has down pat, biggest increase in all of the liberals spending priorities he approves, the Wall and immigration curtail, muh not so much. Some friend.
No wine. Colt 45 Malt Liquor!
Mv = mV is what you want, where M is the mass of the lead and m is the mass of the brass. Therefore, V = (Mv)/m gives the speed of the brass, which will be greater than the speed of the lead.
If, instead, you put the brass in a vice so it can't move without crushing it, the lead would come out faster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kFzpvWm5ak
(There is another of a guy who did this and went to the hospital, but they said it was an abrasion and put a band-aid on it.)
It makes sense that the casing would fly rather than the bullet (if in fact anything flew at all). The casing is much lighter.
As a stupid kid I put a shotgun cartridge in the fork of a tree, and then stood back aways to try to hit the primer with my .22. I hit the shotgun shell the first time - the .22 richochet off and hit my body! I missed the primer though - and didn’t try again! I was lucky - that was in the days before eye protection was even a thought.
Here’s a better one. A 50 caliber sitting on the floor in a microwave.
Hmm. I don’t think I would like to be hit by that bullet. Notice the damage done to the door. Best action starts at 3:00.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6NcD2rZ9H4
Then, that night, I cut the shell down until there was just brass. I put it on the basement floor, primer up, and used a punch and a hammer to smack it. BLAM! My ears were ringing, but I heard my dad say from upstairs, "What are are you doing?" My reply was, "Oh, nothing." "Are you OK?" "Yeah."
End of story.
Another time, when I was home alone (bad idea to leave me alone), I put a small glass bottle of rubbing alcohol in the incinerator in our basement and lit the burner. A while later, I was rewarded with a great boom! Blew the vent pipe out of the chimney and blew the lid off the incinerator. I put them back where they belonged and no one knew what happened.
A .45 acp will travel about 8 to 12 feet.
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