News flash!!! Glock's are not entirely made of plastic!!!
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If any firearm were made entirely of plastic it would be quite a problem for airport TSA screeners to catch on you at the metal detectors.
I want to know what kind of holster the officer was wearing that she could actually "forget" she had on a glock. Not a J frame, or a LCP, or keltec.
I had an MRI done on my knee in the late 90s, I was wearing Timberland hiking boots (the ones that everybody had) that apparently have a steel footplate, and the technician *assured* me that I didn't need to remove them, or my belt. Then he put me in the tube and my feet started "floating" by themselves up off the table, which to me seems like it could be rather influential on my knee, the subject of the MRI. Then he pulled me out and took *everything* metal off me. Around Charlotte there's not too many medical places I've seen that actually permit firearms inside, I've learned to leave them at home or in the glove box for all things medical.
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Zach S
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Yep.
I've worked in sheet metal fabrication for years. The rentacops at work used to use "prison wands" and they would hit on my bare hands if they were close enough (as well as the rivets on my jeans, spare key in my wallet, etc). I had to pull my pockets out for a while because the wand would get a hit on my thighs (where most of the slag goes when grinding/cutting).
Its a rare occasion that I don't get wanded when I go through the walk through metal detector at the court house.
The thought of having an MRI scares me...
As for "forgetting" about wearing a pistol, once you get used to a few extra pounds of steel hanging off your belt or in your waistband, you dont really think about it. Kinda like a rattle in the cab of your truck. Since you're used to it, you dont really "hear" it until someone else mentions how annoying it is.
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SomeDude
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What's a Glock?
AJChenMPH
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Yep, July 2001 in Westchester County, NY.svtruth said:
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2001/07/31/2001-07-31_freak_mri_accident_kills_w_c.html
I was a hospital administrator in NYC at the time...it deeply affected the entire metro-NYC hospital community.
But back on topic...um, yeah.
XDMfan40
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I bet she felt kind of dumb after doing that. What person forgets that they are carrying a weapon anyway. Aren't you supposed to be aware of it and your surrounds at all times?
Erik M
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Something about the way that the "journalist" reports that a "police issued glock handgun" was involved in the incident makes me believe that they probably referred to a chart similar to the following.
effengee
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Let me clear some things up...
I was joking about the weight of Glock metal versus my belt buckle
You guys knew that, right?
I used to have a one pound belt buckle. It had a cowboy riding a bronco on it and it was big and shiny, and gold with silver highlights, and it had semi-precious stones set in it, but I never wore it to an MRI.
I did not know that apostrophes are not used in simple pluralizations.
My most sincerest apologies for offending you with my vulgar rendition of the English language during my anecdotal ramblings.
Ummm, I carry all the time and I never forget that it's with me. That would defeat the whole purpose of carrying, wouldn't it?
I was joking about the weight of Glock metal versus my belt buckle
You guys knew that, right?
I used to have a one pound belt buckle. It had a cowboy riding a bronco on it and it was big and shiny, and gold with silver highlights, and it had semi-precious stones set in it, but I never wore it to an MRI.
I did not know that apostrophes are not used in simple pluralizations.
My most sincerest apologies for offending you with my vulgar rendition of the English language during my anecdotal ramblings.
Ummm, I carry all the time and I never forget that it's with me. That would defeat the whole purpose of carrying, wouldn't it?
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I love how it is described as "generating revenue" as if they are actually creating something.
They bill insurance massive amounts for certain procedures. The patient does not complain because it is not thier money.
(Of course the insurance companies have deals worked out, so it would cost even more for a customer to pay for it with actual cash.)
And people wonder why insurance premiums are so high.
Sometimes I wonder if healthcare is the one thing that needs to be socialist.
Of course I also know it is the insane profits which motivate so much research and innovation into new technology.
Without that motivation new technology would be slower to emerge, and many of the great minds would move into other sectors of the economy.
You still have to envy those nations that can let the insane healthcare system of the USA create the technological breakthroughs, and then provide the USA's discoveries at bargain prices through a different system to thier citizens. All of the benefits without most of the expenses.
No, just the rails.
JWF III
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Unless you find the ever elusive Model 7. They are the only ones to be made all of plastic, and undetectable by X-ray machines.
But expect to pay out the wazzoo if you find one.Wyman
HardShell
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Unless you find the ever elusive Model 7. They are the only ones to be made all of plastic, and undetectable by X-ray machines.
Wyman
Yep, they cost more than you make in a month.
The MRI is a huge permanent superconducting magnet. In order to drop the magnetic field, you basically have to un-superconduct it, by getting rid of all the liquid nitrogen and liquid helium that is cooling the thing. Once the magnet is down, to re-establish the field, the magnetic coil has to be re-cooled. Then the machine has to be re-calibrated.
That is a fair amount of material cost and technician time. $150K worth? Dunno, but it isn't going to be cheap.
That is a fair amount of material cost and technician time. $150K worth? Dunno, but it isn't going to be cheap.
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Very few MRI systems use permanent magnets.
They are electro magnets.
You don't have to purge the cryogens from the magnet to ramp it down.
In fact it must be filled with cryogens to ramp it up.
MRI scanners are at the top of revenue generating devices in most hospitals.
The reason for lining the MRI room with copper is to shield it from RF energy.
Any stray RF signal will cause artifacts in the image.
Metal slivers, especially in your eyes, can get ripped out during a MRI scan.
Metal will get hot during a scan even non ferrous metal.
If the spelling or punctuation is wrong I don't care so don't bother being the grammar nazi.
They are electro magnets.
You don't have to purge the cryogens from the magnet to ramp it down.
In fact it must be filled with cryogens to ramp it up.
MRI scanners are at the top of revenue generating devices in most hospitals.
The reason for lining the MRI room with copper is to shield it from RF energy.
Any stray RF signal will cause artifacts in the image.
Metal slivers, especially in your eyes, can get ripped out during a MRI scan.
Metal will get hot during a scan even non ferrous metal.
If the spelling or punctuation is wrong I don't care so don't bother being the grammar nazi.
gyvel
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Slightly off topic, but, if my failing memory serves me, about 25 years ago or so, some moron in Florida did a big hype on a gun he was (allegedly) developing that was to be all ceramic, and thus capable of avoiding metal detectors. In fact, I think Gun Digest got taken in and featured an article about it, complete with a fairly crude drawing of the gun. It bore a resemblance to a Mauser 1910 (!!).
(Before all the comments about ceramics start, we're not talking about the artsy-fartsy kind here. We're talking about advanced type of industrial ceramics with tremendous tensile strength.)
Anyone else remember that?
(Before all the comments about ceramics start, we're not talking about the artsy-fartsy kind here. We're talking about advanced type of industrial ceramics with tremendous tensile strength.)
Anyone else remember that?
rodregier
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TehK1w1:
Glock frame is primarily polymer with metallic inserts to engage the slide. The version shipped to N. America also has a metal plate molded into the frame for the serial number stamping.
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Part of the problem with MRI machines and LEOs is that some LEOs figure the "no weapons" sign has to do with legal restrictions, not basic physics. Those people blythely drag their payload of ferrous metal into the capture zone of the MRI machine with predictable result :-(
Glock frame is primarily polymer with metallic inserts to engage the slide. The version shipped to N. America also has a metal plate molded into the frame for the serial number stamping.
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Part of the problem with MRI machines and LEOs is that some LEOs figure the "no weapons" sign has to do with legal restrictions, not basic physics. Those people blythely drag their payload of ferrous metal into the capture zone of the MRI machine with predictable result :-(
Ghost Walker
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While each of the four rail components are molded into the polymer frame, there is no steel under-frame inside Glock's polymer frames. Steyr? Yes. Glock? No.
This is one of two things I really don't like about the Glocks that I carry; however, neither has the lack of a metal under-frame ever caused me a problem. (But, then again, I don't use a pistol-mounted tac light.)
This said, there's plenty of steel in Glock's: slides, barrels, and lock mechanisms; as well as a little bit more in the serial number plate and inside all of the magazines.
This is one of two things I really don't like about the Glocks that I carry; however, neither has the lack of a metal under-frame ever caused me a problem. (But, then again, I don't use a pistol-mounted tac light.)
This said, there's plenty of steel in Glock's: slides, barrels, and lock mechanisms; as well as a little bit more in the serial number plate and inside all of the magazines.
Yup. Both times I have had MRIs,at 2 seperate local hospitals, they not only had big signs at the check-in desk warning about metal, but also asked at least twice before going into the exam area, where they reaffirmed that before they actually started the machine. The first time, the hospital did a pre-screen the day before the MRI and even reminded me not to wear any metal that day- including eyelets/zippers/buttons on my clothes.
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