i’m not a gun guy by any means, but–assuming it wasn’t a revolver, which is totally possible–doesn’t this imply that it was an automatic and there was a round chambered? personally, i don’t carry a piece. but i guess the kind of person that concealed carries into a hospital MRI room after saying they don’t have a weapon on them, is gonna be the sort of person that wants to quick draw and blow a hole in something without a second’s delay.
Knowing the kind of person who does all the things you mentioned, it was probably a striker-fired pistol too (Gun everywhere, round-always-chambered people typically dont want anything with a hammer that can snag on their clothes when they do their cowboy quickdraw). Build quality being equal, a striker pistol should be about as safe as a hammer pistol, most of the time…unless you take it into a crazy strong electromagnetic field, in which case you’d better hope it has some kind of drop-safety to keep the striker from being magnetically yoinked forward into the chamber.
If it didn’t go off as soon as she walked in, I assume she shifted position in a way that lined up the gun with the magnet to make that exact kind of malfunction possible
Bonus from the article about America’s most popular striker pistol randomly shooting it’s owners in the legs:
Additionally, this same news outlet reported that the Army’s approval of the P320 led many police departments to adopt this weapon. However, they were unaware that the model they would be receiving was the version that had failed Army testing.
no, gun only fired one shot. could be anything from a single-shot derringer to a DA/SA to a DA-only revolver. Personally, my bet is a normal DA/SA with one in the chamber. My bet is something with a hammer already back and a light trigger pull, so the MRI didn’t have to move much.
personally I carry with one in the chamber and the safety on. Racking the slide is slow and requires two hands, which you may not have available if you are (for instance) trying to push someone off you. If concealed carry is defensive, it implies you’re responding to other peoples’ actions. You can (and should) try to be aware of when things are going down, but definitionally they’ve got the drop on you. So you can’t pause to load your blunderbuss; if you’re slow you might as well not carry at all and save everyone the danger.
Generally speaking, you don’t really want to have you weapons unchambered unless you’re dealing with a large population of idiots/inexperienced people, such as the military (their guns have manual safeties and there are many situations where it’s completely unloaded or unchambered). But this also applies to American citizens, but unfortunately no one enforces these rules. Cops having no safeties make sense because nominally they’re always in danger (even though they’re not even in the too dangerous professions lol), and I believe many departments require heavy triggers so you’re sure you want to shoot.
Many citizens will even lighten their trigger pull significantly so you just pull it back a hair and it’ll go off. Because you know, we live in the 1850 and every corner is someone trying to murder you.
Though I would never carry unchambered. I can’t imagine being in a scenario where I’ll have enough time to rack the slide back, and my palms are always sweaty.
i’m not a gun guy by any means, but–assuming it wasn’t a revolver, which is totally possible–doesn’t this imply that it was an automatic and there was a round chambered? personally, i don’t carry a piece. but i guess the kind of person that concealed carries into a hospital MRI room after saying they don’t have a weapon on them, is gonna be the sort of person that wants to quick draw and blow a hole in something without a second’s delay.
She:
And all of those are the toppings on taking into a massive electromagnet
She’s a bubba no doubt about it.
Far from an expert here but I could absolutely imagine an MRI machine having enough magnetism to flick the safety off, under the right conditions.
Knowing the kind of person who does all the things you mentioned, it was probably a striker-fired pistol too (Gun everywhere, round-always-chambered people typically dont want anything with a hammer that can snag on their clothes when they do their cowboy quickdraw). Build quality being equal, a striker pistol should be about as safe as a hammer pistol, most of the time…unless you take it into a crazy strong electromagnetic field, in which case you’d better hope it has some kind of drop-safety to keep the striker from being magnetically yoinked forward into the chamber.
If it didn’t go off as soon as she walked in, I assume she shifted position in a way that lined up the gun with the magnet to make that exact kind of malfunction possible
Bonus from the article about America’s most popular striker pistol randomly shooting it’s owners in the legs:
no, gun only fired one shot. could be anything from a single-shot derringer to a DA/SA to a DA-only revolver. Personally, my bet is a normal DA/SA with one in the chamber. My bet is something with a hammer already back and a light trigger pull, so the MRI didn’t have to move much.
personally I carry with one in the chamber and the safety on. Racking the slide is slow and requires two hands, which you may not have available if you are (for instance) trying to push someone off you. If concealed carry is defensive, it implies you’re responding to other peoples’ actions. You can (and should) try to be aware of when things are going down, but definitionally they’ve got the drop on you. So you can’t pause to load your blunderbuss; if you’re slow you might as well not carry at all and save everyone the danger.
Generally speaking, you don’t really want to have you weapons unchambered unless you’re dealing with a large population of idiots/inexperienced people, such as the military (their guns have manual safeties and there are many situations where it’s completely unloaded or unchambered). But this also applies to American citizens, but unfortunately no one enforces these rules. Cops having no safeties make sense because nominally they’re always in danger (even though they’re not even in the too dangerous professions lol), and I believe many departments require heavy triggers so you’re sure you want to shoot.
Many citizens will even lighten their trigger pull significantly so you just pull it back a hair and it’ll go off. Because you know, we live in the 1850 and every corner is someone trying to murder you.
Though I would never carry unchambered. I can’t imagine being in a scenario where I’ll have enough time to rack the slide back, and my palms are always sweaty.