MRI Busters?

An incident recently occurred at an outpatient imaging center in western New York State, in which a firearm spontaneously discharged in a 1.5-T MR imaging environment with active shielding. To our knowledge, this is the first documented case of such an occurrence. The event confirms previously reported theoretic risks of a firearm discharging in an MR imaging environment [1]. In this report, we examine the incident in detail from the official police and ballistic reports

I saw this over at SayUncle a few days ago and I just now remembered it.

Yeah, I guess, but I'd still like to see the results duplicated on Mythbusters before I totally buy into it. I mean, it's not like we haven't seen "Only Ones" and negligent discharges before...again and again and again...

I guess the way you submit stuff for testing is to join their message boards--no time here, but someone else feel free. Tell me you wouldn't watch that show...

We're the Only Ones Careless and Careless Enough

An RCMP officer will be sentenced in February for careless use of her 9-mm pistol after shots were fired inside her home during a domestic dispute.

"Shots" plural?

As in multiple deliberate actions?

I wonder if that behavior would be classified as "careless" if a non-"Only One" had done it?

And the "No, Duh!" Award Goes to...

Gun Dealer Suspects Illegal Arms Trade Widespread

Ya think?

You want "gun violence"? Keep making them illegal and you'll get more "gun violence" than you know what to do with.

Yeah, You're Right. It's the Culture's Fault

A teenager who was shot dead by her former boyfriend was the victim of Britain's gun culture, a coroner said yesterday.

Individual choice obviously had nothing to do with any of this.

A Blunder Down Under?

A review of gun laws a decade after the Port Arthur massacre has found all states and territories have breached the national firearms agreement.

Now hold on just a dang minute here...

We were told a week ago that Australian gun laws are responsible for reducing all kinds of mean and nasty things in the past 15 years...

Now we're told those laws weren't enforced. Pretty darn near universally, it seems.

My head hurts.

"Not Guilty." But We'll Just Hold on to this Gun...

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FARMER Padraig Nally, who was last week acquitted of the manslaughter of a Traveller is now hoping to get his shotgun back.

The single-barrel hunting piece, once owned by his late father, Patrick, dates from the 1930s and was used by both Patrick and later Padraig, to shoot vermin on the farm.

It was also the weapon Padraig Nally used to shoot John Ward on his farm at Funshinagh, Cross, on October 14, 2004...

Mr Nally has indicated he is worried about retaliation, a fear shared by the Garda authorities who have been in touch with him about security.

Just so we're clear: He defends himself at his own home and is arrested and tried. Even after being acquitted, with a credible likelihood of revenge against him acknowledged by the "authorities," they still won't return his property so he can defend himself.

This is the outrageous state some would reduce us all to--if we let them.

Oh, did I mention? Other accounts reveal Ward went by the aka "Frog," that he had over 80 prior criminal convictions, four outstanding arrest warrants, 11 children...

Green Party: Stupid or Evil?

A gun lobby group says licensing firearms is ineffective in controlling a black market.

The Green Party is calling for tougher gun control legislation after more than 500 military-style semi-automatic and automatic weapons, pistols and machine guns were confiscated on Wednesday from 55 properties located between North Auckland and Canterbury.

Oh, I don't know--we've seen how effective licensing cars has been at stopping the stolen car market in its tracks...uh, wait a minute...

[A] restricted firearm sold on the black market is worth 10 times its normal value.

Imagine how prices would soar were guns totally outlawed for civilians, as these subversive 10-year-old girls really want. Think of the violence and turf wars and dynamic entries and police state expansion we'd see then, and how many people desperate for some means of protection, would become persecuted "criminals."

"The Green Party"...why do they remind me of "smart herbivores"?

Fascist busybodies...

This Day in History: December 21

On this day in 1761, Revolutionary War hero and faithful Patriot Robert Barnwell is born in Beaufort, South Carolina. Beaufort enthusiastically participated in each stage of his country’s revolutionary coming-of-age.

I think History.Com made a mistake here, and it should read "Barnwell enthusiastically..."