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by ELB
Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:43 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Ever wonder what a housefire will do to your ammo cache?
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Re: Ever wonder what a housefire will do to your ammo cache?

All the examples of loose (i.e. not chambered in a gun) small arms ammo in a house-type fire I know of showed the ammo just burns. May force the bullet out of the case, but not with high velocity. I would not want to be close to it though -- I'll bet you get some spectacular flames. I burned off tiny amounts of contaminated powder that I spilled while reloading, and WOW -- the fireball produced by just a .38 special's worth of powder was impressive.

However, one of the firefighting news websites I peruse did have a story on firefighter shot in the thigh when a round cooked off that was chambered in a handgun that was in a fire.

I would think that ammo that gets hot enough to burn inside of a safe could cause an explosion, or maybe more accurately, violently open the safe, if enough ammo is present, but I know of no actual accounts of this.

elb

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