(NY) Gun in Oven Shoots Woman

[cordex]

Okay, okay ... I admit it! I've put guns in the oven before!

Well ... parts of guns that I wanted to dry, anyway.
1 hour at 200 degrees works like a charm to get that last bit of water out of gun parts you've just poured boiling water all over.
You know ... to wash away the salts formed by corrosive primers.

Since she was supposedly bending over to look in an oven, it seems like it would be very possible for a bullet to pass through her forearm, strike her hip and be deflected out the thigh.

 

[45R]

I can see this being a segment on the Martha Stewart show...

 

[No4Mk1*]

It would be nice if the reporter would let us know if the round that "cooked off" had a dent in the center of the primer. That would be a very useful piece of information. I didn't think rounds cooked off at 400F, but if the primer was not struck, then evidence is evidence. 2 rounds cooking off at the same time is BS until I see the primers.

 

[Sharpie1]

I don't like how this so-called expert said that it was plausible that the gun could "blow up" - when heated.

Sure, the rounds could cook off, but the GUN can't "blow up".

If these reporters would take ten minutes to do a little bit of research before regurgitating all of this stuff out onto their computer keyboards, this misinformation wouldn't get so out of hand.

IDIOTS!!!!!!!

In this situation, both the handgun "owner", the reporter and the "gun expert" are ALL INCOMPETENT.

--tadyson

 

[cordex]

Sure, the rounds could cook off, but the GUN can't "blow up".

Hmmm ...
What happens if a few rounds cook off in the magazine? Probably not good for the gun, and it might well be said to have "blown up", eh wot?