After you mentioned this and I replied, It really stuck with me, so I did some checking on our records about guns we had serviced, We did have a full auto gun come in, quite a while back, that had been blown by a shooter using 308 indian ammo. The shooter ended up having to seek medical attention due to a large chunk of casing imbedded into his stomach. It was our opinion that due to the excessive amount of residue created in the receiver of the gun, that the gun did not go into full battery while being fired, upon ignition the casing bust and therefore then ruptured the next two additional casings in the feedway , causing a violent chain or reactions. The operator, reported having a number of failures with the ammunition. Inspection of the barrel showed no signs of bullet lodging/ barrel bulging, which leads to the above forementioned opinion.
While the gun did survive, it required extensive rebuilding/parts replacement. The shooter was an extremely knowledgable gunner, who had 20 years experience with shooting/ collecting full auto weapons, and therefore it was our opinion that this extreme failure was caused due to ammunition quality and not that of operator error.