sig226
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So we rented machine guns to some Europeans today, which we probably should not have done because Europeans tend to think that all Americans run around with machine guns all the time and it's just like on tv.
They screwed up a Colt, so we gave them another one. They said the Uzi didn't work, so I went in the range and tested it. The barrel worked loose and it wouldn't fire. Then they handed me another Colt and one of them said, "It does not fire."
Sure it does . . .
So I chambered a round and pulled the trigger.
BANG
It fired just fine, the problem was the bullet didn't come out. I got blown up.
Kewl.
The gun jammed with a cartridge stuck on the remains of the case in the chamber. The case head was sitting on top of the magazine. I saved the case head and we extracted the rest of it. It looks like this:
The front bullet was a squib load. The gun was not full of unburnt powder, so the bullet didn't work loose and lodge in the throat. They must have tried to reload it a few times and it wouldn't fire because it wouldn't go into battery, but they pushed the bullet into the barrel. I'm smart, so I got a round in the chamber and closed the bolt.
Crud and black smoke come out from the seam between the upper and lower receivers of M-16 type rifles when this happens. It looks cool. And all of my pieces are intact, I can still see out of both eyes, and it didn't even burn off half of my moustache. I am still the studly sex machine I always was.
But I've never been blown up before, and now I have. What an exciting day!
They screwed up a Colt, so we gave them another one. They said the Uzi didn't work, so I went in the range and tested it. The barrel worked loose and it wouldn't fire. Then they handed me another Colt and one of them said, "It does not fire."
Sure it does . . .
So I chambered a round and pulled the trigger.
BANG
It fired just fine, the problem was the bullet didn't come out. I got blown up.
Kewl.
The gun jammed with a cartridge stuck on the remains of the case in the chamber. The case head was sitting on top of the magazine. I saved the case head and we extracted the rest of it. It looks like this:
The front bullet was a squib load. The gun was not full of unburnt powder, so the bullet didn't work loose and lodge in the throat. They must have tried to reload it a few times and it wouldn't fire because it wouldn't go into battery, but they pushed the bullet into the barrel. I'm smart, so I got a round in the chamber and closed the bolt.
Crud and black smoke come out from the seam between the upper and lower receivers of M-16 type rifles when this happens. It looks cool. And all of my pieces are intact, I can still see out of both eyes, and it didn't even burn off half of my moustache. I am still the studly sex machine I always was.
But I've never been blown up before, and now I have. What an exciting day!