MDB Fairies
As preachy as it sounds, this is something I do agree with Mick on, and stress when teaching people about guns: the word “unloaded” is profanity. Guns exist in two states: Loaded, or disabled. I’ve never gone so far as to say “magical dickhead bullet fairy”, but you get the idea.
Happy birthday to my sister, Wendy! Who is living in Hawaii and keeps posting facebook pictures of her beach backyard and grinding it in our faces. BETCH.
This shit is CRAY-ZAY. I’ve always wondered when handheld railguns will become a reality. We’re still not really there – the best most people can do is pellet-gun impacts. Except for the US Military…
That’s video of a solid, high-ferrous steel projectile, hurled by magnets, hitting a target so hard, the impact causes the material to ignite.
I think “MDB” is a term I’m going to have to use from now on. Thank you.
Me too! Certainly there’s enough cases of ADs after “Duh, I thought it was empty,” even the rare case (about once a year) of an AD at a gun show somewhere. Those MDB fairies are everywhere! 😉
When I was younger my father was showing my brother and I a black powder rifle he used to use for hunting. It’d been in a case under my parents bed for at least ten years. He told us about all the steps, wadding, powder, shot, etc, showed us the ramrod. Then he demonstrated firing, pulled the trigger and BLAM!!!!
He hurried us inside and stuck it back under his bed. For a few minutes we thought he had shot our neighbors noisy dog, because for once it had stopped barking. Luckily the dog was fine, probably just scared shitless. So yeah; NEVER assume a gun isn’t loaded.
Allow me to recommend the interesting and informative Video.
And here’s another, newer, video showing a rail gun that is approaching something that could be mounted on a ship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uV1SbEuzFU
I remember when we had an AD during Drill Weekend. Thankfully, it was a blank but it scared the crap out of those of us who were nearby. Our First Sergeant gave the man a choice: Get written up for his stupidity or be thrashed for an hour. He took the thrashing and learned his lesson.
He got off lucky. We know of a fellow who had a AD while stationed in the sandbox, unfortunately, in front of some brass. He effectively ended up peeling potatoes and scrubbing MRAPs for the rest of the time, and was not given a choice to re-up.
just ask John Eric Huxum, or Brandon Lee about those damn bullet fairies. Hell I’ve seen Arrow fairies, (archery class in High School, we had an idjit fire one robinhood straight up, and than gravity) went throguh someone’s shoe but actually missed actual bits of flesh, did cause some staining of undies)
Yeah I am building a railgun of my own.
I like to refer to it like the Heisenberg principle- you never know if it’s loaded unless you’re actively looking it it. Second you close it, that cat might suddenly be alive again.
Um. You mean Schroedinger.
In modern parlance, the Heisenberg principle would be “Jesse, is this cat alive or dead? Can you stop listening to your hip-hop subculture music long enough to actually drag yourself up and start cooking a quality product?”