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‘Do not store guns in your oven’: Loaded gun stored in oven fires multiple rounds after getting overheated (www.live5news.com)

submitted 2 months ago by realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[-] Volkditty@lemmy.world 90 points 2 months ago

Want to make a "firing range" pun, but nothing's coming to me...leaving this as a placeholder in case inspiration strikes later.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 65 points 2 months ago

Good move. The last thing you want to do is post a half-baked pun.

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

What about a fully baked gun?

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Sounds more like a cook off.

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[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Something about packing heat, too.

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[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Who knew? Them damn guns need a warning that says "Do not store in or near excessive heat, fire or flame"...

🤦‍♂️

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

A quick image search finds this warning label on ammunition saying to store it in a cool, dry place.

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Well, yeah, but the gun is safe right? Right...

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[-] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 months ago

No one ever thought of making such a warning because nobody thought anyone would be this stupid!

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've literally seen pocket lighters that had a warning that said "Do not use near fire or flame", coming from a device literally designed to generate fire! 😂

People have already proven themselves excessively stupid, I don't see why guns aren't required to have a lengthy safety warning literally etched into the metal by now. 🤷‍♂️

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

As Dave Barry famously observed, the box a Water Pik comes in bears the warning, "Do not use while sleeping."

Guns already have lengthy safety warnings etched into them. Unfortunately, there definitely isn't enough space to describe every moronic thing people could do with them.

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[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

pffftt guns can never be the problem, we need to add the safety label to the ovens!

[-] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 44 points 2 months ago

(I don't have time to make an image right now, but anyway)

Hey America, how you doing?

Don't keep your gun in the oven.

Oh.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 44 points 2 months ago

Just baking up some hot cross guns.

[-] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 months ago

This should not have made me laugh out loud, but it did!

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 months ago

But who can stop an oven with a gun?

[-] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 28 points 2 months ago

Only a good oven with a gun!

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[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Constantly shocked by people that don't open the oven door at look every time prior to preheating the oven.

How else will you find:

no pilot light
a blanket
cast iron cookware cooling
loaded guns
forgotten food

Look in the oven people! It takes 1 second.

Edit: I am amazed how many people don't look in the oven before turning it on.

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 months ago

I do not understand ever storing anything in the oven, its a cooking tool not a storage tool.

I will agree if you have a gas stove that checking the pilot light is a good idea, but those are becoming less common as we are discovering just how bad they are for your health - that, and induction is amazing for anything that doesn't require an open flame (and that's what bbqs are for!).

[-] dan@upvote.au 8 points 2 months ago

we are discovering just how bad they are for your health

It turns out that burning a highly flammable carcinogen in your living environment isn't the best idea.

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[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 months ago

Because normal people don't put random shit in their oven to check for?

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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Why would you expect anything to be in the oven? Maybe the cast iron is the exception but only because it can take the heat

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[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I'm reminded of a joke from Burn Notice where Michael has kept a folder of critically important blackmail files in his mother's oven for several seasons. He just casually points out she never actually cooks anything herself.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That show was awesome.

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[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Thinking that's a good idea, and remembering to do it, are two different things.

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 months ago

Also there could be a cat in the oven, or in America, a cat with a gun.

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[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

So you’re saying they had a… cook off?

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

On this episode of "Great American Bake-Off"

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[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Mythbusters S05E16. Loose bullets fire off but do not have energy to pierce the metal. A gun will fire a lethal bullet

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

1000017070

Hot bullets get your hot bullets!

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[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

They fucking tested this on myth busters. Don't store bullets near fire

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[-] ragica@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 months ago

Amazed to see this. New old house. Used oven for first time. Some sort of stench and black gunk dripping from top heat shield. Gas stove. Investigate. Pull out pieces of a gun. Glock or something. Previous owner stops by for mail (unusual situation). I had over the melted pieces, "you forget something in the oven?" "Oh shit. No problem, I can fix it." "uh.. Okaaaaay... "

[-] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago

He can 3D print or just but a new frame. The metal parts will be fine.

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

But maybe that individual should not.

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 months ago

wait... when you say "fired" do we mean, chambered, and fired down the barrel, cleared, and then cycled fully, repeating, or do we mean the rounds just popped off in the stack, not in the chamber.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

Possible with a semi auto, since the chamber and barrel would transmit heat better to a chambered round then the magazine and all the safety parts don't really assume cook off. Yeah a round fires, slide racks back and loads next round, next round cooks off, over and over until all rounds are the same temp.

Spooky stuff.

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[-] ilost7489@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago

I mean to be fair who likes to eat cold lead

[-] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

On one hand, it's stupid as hell to store a firearm anywhere but in a safe/cabinet designed for them. An oven is another level of stupid

On the other, I used to store our cast iron Dutch oven in the oven and I can't tell you how many times I started preheating the oven and then remembered to take it out. Usually after its oil seasoning started to heat up

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

Uhhhh, also don't store loaded guns? Like, at all. Anywhere.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

This is the part that's boggling my mind.

Stored guns in an oven.
Stored guns loaded.

But not content to stop there:

Stored loaded guns, inside an oven.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I worry about the people who need to be told things like this. How did they survive childhood without signs warning them not to breathe water or drink the contents of thermometers?

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[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

This headline is AGAINST THE SECOND AMENDMENT! Not Be Infringed MEANS NOT BE INFRINGED! I can Store my Gun WHEREVER I want!

[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Your oven is a machine gun now, to go with your shoelace.

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