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Soccerdad1995 wrote:

AJSully421 wrote:With MRI machines and magnets, it is not the danger of a discharge, it is the fact that a steel pistol will forcibly rip itself form any holster and fly across the room, or take the person carrying along with it. There are videos of MRIs doing crazy things to ferrous items.

Serious question. Are metal detectors required outside the entrances to locations with these machines? If the magnets are powerful enough to propel a 200 pound man carrying 40 ounces (or possibly a lot less) of metal, then they can surely cause loose keys and other small unsecured objects to fly across the room as well.

I've only had one MRI, but I don't remember any grave warnings along these lines.

Nope. Most are not aware of what a MRI can do. Here is a video. Notice that a simple open-end wrench can cause hundreds of pounds of pull. Imagine what a 1911 could do? Notice what something with as little steel as a stapler can do. Admittedly, you would have to walk within about 10 or so feet of the opening for anything to happen, but I see no problem with having that room and maybe the tech office where they monitor the machine be off limits... but not the entire building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BBx8BwLhqg

With MRI machines and magnets, it is not the danger of a discharge, it is the fact that a steel pistol will forcibly rip itself form any holster and fly across the room, or take the person carrying along with it. There are videos of MRIs doing crazy things to ferrous items.

A&M has a nuclear reactor on campus. I can agree that you don't want firearms in there. Also, around MRI machines, or other magnets for obvious reasons. I can give a little about chemical labs where volatile chemicals are used and stored. That's it.

Disciplinary hearings?!?!?! What is preventing a disgruntled student from walking in that same building / room with a pistol right now? NOTHING!

What I cannot abide is the idea that somehow children are a special class of citizen that those of us who are more law abiding that the cops should not be able to carry a pistol in their presence. I OC my G17 around my house in a Safariland ALS holster while I am rough housing with my three kids. If I can do that, I am sure that I can walk the halls of an elementary school without causing harm to the children.

I would say that any place (school or not) that wants to ban guns must have an armed guard and a metal detector. Otherwise, nope.