Guns and magnets.

[griz]

Last year I missed a shot at a local match. At first I attributed it to poor shooting, but obviously the gun had become magnitized and the miss must have sucked all the magnitizm out the barrel. At least that's what I have decided to believe.

 

[MikeIsaj]

There's a story making the rounds about an officer, armed with a Glock, who found that his pistol would not work after being in a room with an MRI running.

Another vote for urban myth.

1. I have taken many inmates for MRI scans. They won't allow you into the room with any substantial metal items on you.

2. When MRI scanners first became common, Fire Engineering magazine did an article on them with regard to firefighting near them. As someone said the magnet does not shut down, even when you cut power to the machine. The magnet exists in a cryogenic environment which allows the field to remain for quite awhile after it is owered down, unless it is "dumped." To make the point they let go of a 12 inch adjustable wrench and clocked it at 85mph as it passed through the chamber. I don't recall how they measured the speed.

3. I also think it is untrue because as we all know, plastic cannot be magnetized.

 

[Mixlesplick]

"Do you think they magnetized you, George?"

 

[icecorps]

Ruger Revolver

Some of the internal parts of my SP-101 "stick" to each other when I disassemble, the hammer and the rod inside the spring especially. No, I have not been over-lubricating.

 

[Sir Aardvark]

Kind of a funny story, since we're on the topic of magnetizing things -

A couple of the Radiologists at the hospital where I work would go into the MRI unit to give injections of contrast media, and, after being in there enough times, the innards of their very expensive Rolex watches would become magnetized and stop keeping time correctly.

Also, one of the housekeeping attendants brought a steel cannister wet/dry vacuum into the unit, and it took 6 people to pull that thing off of the gantry.

As for having your gun becoming magnetized and failing to function after one exposure to an MRI I find hard to believe.

And, anyways, what the hell was the Cop doing bringing a ferrous object into the scan field???; did he think the half-dozen warning signs did not apply to him???.

 

[The_Antibubba]

If you're worried about the effect an MRI would have on the ferrous parts of your pistol, just carry a Bryco.

 

[setxcypress]

If you're worried about the effect an MRI would have on the ferrous parts of your pistol, just carry a Bryco.

Or would one of those completely free of metal glocks that will go through the airport metal detector. The friend of my 2nd cousin owns one that I've only heard about but never seen, but swears that he has one in 454 Casull.

 

[artherd]

Thanks for the replies, but I am seeing conflicting opinions about the firing pin, anybody know of any actual stories? When I first posted this I had the unpleasent thought that it was so far out it would be pure speculation.

Then again, it is possible to make metals that cannot be magnatized, right?

If anyone is curious, the idea of magnets has to do with a super gun safe idea I had. I am curious to see if it would be worth following. (In 20 years, when I have the money to actually try it out and go for $$$.)

Go ahead and use your magnetic locks I've got 'em on many doors and they work great. We did a test-to-failure at one of my client's companies, and the door *frame* was literally ripped off. Except for a portion of the door frame that was still attached to the magnet!

 

[Hkmp5sd]

In one of the early episodes of Miami Vice, Tubbs uses a huge magnet (about 6" diameter and 2" thick) to hold a backup gun up under his car. It was being left on an airfield while him and Crockett flew south to buy some drugs.

 

[SomeKid]

arther,

That was where I got the idea, however the idea I have is far different. And still a secret. Maybe 20 years from now I will have a million dollar invention, but for now, I am just going to keep working on my BSN.

 

[abaddon]

Besides, didn't you know that Glocks are incapable of attraction?

+1

 

[ChickenHawk]

Nah.

Though there have been a couple of stories in the past of Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines yanking firearms from their holsters.

Justin, that was in the Jet Li movie, "The One".

Just about everything in that movie was pretty bad science, but a fun movie!

Chickenhawk

 

[45crittergitter]

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