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Warpy

(111,267 posts)
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 11:17 AM Dec 2023

US Woman Takes Her Gun Into an MRI Scanner And Gets Seriously Lucky [View all]

(Posted as a cautionary tale for gun owners who feel naked and afraid without their guns)

A 57-year-old Wisconsin woman received superficial wounds to her right buttock earlier this year when a concealed firearm on her person was subjected to the powerful magnetism of an MRI device.

Though her injuries were relatively minor, consisting of a clean entry and exit through subcutaneous tissue, the incident is yet another reminder of the potentially deadly consequences of taking a loaded firearm into places where loaded firearms have no place.
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Given the risk of severe injury or death to one's self and others, stories like these can only serve as a reminder to double check and then check again if you're armed before entering a tube pumping out the magnetism of a few thousand fridge magnets. It just might save your ass.


https://www.sciencealert.com/us-woman-takes-her-gun-into-an-mri-scanner-and-gets-seriously-lucky

Good discussion about how MRI machines work, missed the bit about where metallic objects cast huge shadows and those with moving parts will tend to heat up, warp, and not work any more.

This nitwit probably had a round chambered. Serves her stupid ass right, too bad she probably fucked up the machine.
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