fess up, which one of you guys did this?

[Dave P]

Man Leaves Guns In Oven

Dick, is this you??

Man Leaves Guns, Ammo In Oven, Doesn't Tell Wife

POSTED: 11:53 am EST February 18, 2004
UPDATED: 11:56 am EST February 18, 2004

HOWARD, Wis. -- Wisconsin man thought his guns and ammunition would be safe if he hid them in the oven while he and his wife were on vacation.

Only he forgot to tell his wife.

When they returned from vacation, she turned on the oven to cook dinner. You can guess the rest.

The couple took cover behind their refrigerator when the bullets began exploding.

The man was able to use an extinguisher to put out the fire that started in the oven. No one was hurt.

 

[Bill Hook]

Is there something in the water up there?

Didn't Madison's chief of po-po do the same thing with his gun a few years ago?

 

[dsgrntldPW]

Kinda reminded me of that old advertisement where they had a picture of of a handgun shaped meatloaf, or some type of meat dish, and were talking about a gun not having to be big to be 'beefy'. IIRC it was a S&W ad raggin' on Ruger. K-frame vs. GP-100 before the L-frame, or something like that.

He could have at least said he was trying one of those baked-on finishes from Brownell's and forgot to unload the gun.

 

[George Hill]

Same thing happend to a Sheriff some time ago...

 

[Standing Wolf]

Refrigerator.

 

[Ebbtide]

Now where have I heard this before?

Never mind: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35566&highlight=Ammo+In+Oven

 

[Nightcrawler]

In Cowboy Bebop, Spike is seen storing a Beretta 92 and a box of hand grenades in the refrigerator. That always struck me as cool.

Don't think it'd hurt the gun any, either. I mean, here, outside, it's colder than it is in my refrigerator...often, it's colder outside than it is in the freezer....

 

[Justin]

Seems like this happens once every year and a half or so.

You'd figure that people would realize this is a terribly stupid idea.

 

[444]

Before I bought a safe I used to hide all my guns when I went on vacation including in the oven.
I never forgot and turned it on though.
Obviously I didn't think it was a stupid idea. I was trying to find places where someone would not look for guns if they broke in. Closets, under the bed etc. are pretty obvious.

 

[WYO]

I wonder if it went off half-baked?

 

[Preacherman]

Wyo - no, this was obviously a cook-off!

 

[Billmanweh]

a high roader?

HOWARD, Wis. - A man and his wife ducked behind a refrigerator when bullets began exploding in their oven, authorities say.

Capt. Craig Kohlbeck of the Brown County Sheriff's Department said the husband had put the ammunition and three handguns in the oven before the couple left on a vacation.

He told officers he thought the items would be safe there in case someone broke into the home while they were away.

After returning from their trip Tuesday, the wife turned on the oven to prepare dinner and the bullets ignited, Kohlbeck said.

No one was hurt.

 

[OEF_VET]

Now, if they had been Glocks, they would have melted and the big chunk of plastic would have contained the explosion, cuz Glocks are the best!

 

[Hkmp5sd]

Not me....

But I do know a fellow that put his wet boots in the oven to dry them out. It took several days to air out the house. Wife was max PO'd.

 

[Deepdiver]

Couldn't of been me!

I keep my wife OUT of the kitchen (thats where I hide the new guns I have secretly bought!!! )!!

 

[grnzbra]

Before I had a safe, when I was going away for extended periods, I would put the guns in the hamper with a load of dirty underwear on top.

 

[foghornl]

I was doing a couple of other things at the same time, but i did catch some of this story on the late news last night.

All I can say is "Hey Dude, 'Kemore' or 'Amana' on the front panel does NOT mean that it is a 'gun safe' "

 

[jhisaac1]

Couldn't have been a High Roader. They wouldn't have left any guns at home.

 

[NavajoNPaleFace]

I heard about that this morning on our local channel 3 news.

Now that I know no one was injured I have to chuckle.

I'd better not chuckle too loud........I've pulled some real boners over the years.

 

[Redlg155]

Amazing.

My wife would have never found it unless it was in the microwave.

Good Shooting
Red

 

[Higgins]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to recall that rounds cooking off when not loaded into a chamber aren't all that dangerous (relative to rounds in a chamber). Without a chamber, the rounds don't develop enough pressure to launch themselves with speed anywhere near what they develop when actually shot.

Seems I recall a fireman being interviewed about ammo at a gunstore fire cooking off while the firemen were inside fighting the fire. He said no one was hurt despite hudreds of rounds popping off all around them.

Right or wrong?

 

[KingRuger]

you are right to a point.

the crimp on the bullet itself is enough to be a projectile i wouldnt want to get hit by, but the bullet going down the barrel does go much faster

 

[Delmar]

But I do know a fellow that put his wet boots in the oven to dry them out. It took several days to air out the house.

HKMP5SD-Sounds like your buddy is in dire need of a pair of odor-eaters

loose pistol cartridges exposed to fire are generally going to launch the cases at reduced velocity because the case is lighter than the bullet.

 

[Ky Larry]

Have any of you fire fighters or LEO's responded to a house fire where ammo was cooking off? Did you evacuate and let the fire burn it's self out? Just curious.

 

[cidirkona]

Geez... I think you people should go out and get yourselves a safe or two...

Then you can put your safe in the oven, then pile dirty landry all over it .

...and then light it on fire.

-Colin