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philip964 wrote:

Excaliber wrote:

Dave2 wrote:

Excaliber wrote:Folks have done worse than what happened in this incident and put the whole loaded gun in the oven. NYPD recorded some of these events in their annual firearms discharge reports back in the 90's.

When the oven was subsequently turned on and the round in the chamber cooked off, it discharged at full velocity. In some cases, the gun cycled successfully and subsequent rounds were discharged as well when they cooked off until the slide stopped going into battery.

I was thinking about this while I was getting ready for work this morning, and it occurred to me that the 1911's thumb safety would prevent the slide from cycling and therefore subsequent rounds from cooking off in the chamber. Having a bunch of bullets blow up the frame of your gun would still be a pretty bad day, though, and that's assuming there's no extra-ovenal damage.



I don't think "ovenal" is actually a word. Sorry.

The thumb safety would only prevent slide cycling if the gun had been left in the oven cocked and locked. Of course, I wouldn't put that past anyone who would put his gun in the oven in the first place.

Funny my, mind read it as "cooked and locked"

I'm not sure what this means, but out of the several of these oven discharge stories I've come across, I've never seen a case where someone who was smart enough to buy a 1911 was dumb enough to put it in the oven and then turn it on.

Dave2 wrote:

Excaliber wrote:Folks have done worse than what happened in this incident and put the whole loaded gun in the oven. NYPD recorded some of these events in their annual firearms discharge reports back in the 90's.

When the oven was subsequently turned on and the round in the chamber cooked off, it discharged at full velocity. In some cases, the gun cycled successfully and subsequent rounds were discharged as well when they cooked off until the slide stopped going into battery.

I was thinking about this while I was getting ready for work this morning, and it occurred to me that the 1911's thumb safety would prevent the slide from cycling and therefore subsequent rounds from cooking off in the chamber. Having a bunch of bullets blow up the frame of your gun would still be a pretty bad day, though, and that's assuming there's no extra-ovenal damage.



I don't think "ovenal" is actually a word. Sorry.

The thumb safety would only prevent slide cycling if the gun had been left in the oven cocked and locked. Of course, I wouldn't put that past anyone who would put his gun in the oven in the first place.

hillfighter wrote:

Excaliber wrote:Folks have done worse than what happened in this incident and put the whole loaded gun in the oven. NYPD recorded some of these events in their annual firearms discharge reports back in the 90's.

When the oven was subsequently turned on and the round in the chamber cooked off, it discharged at full velocity. In some cases, the gun cycled successfully and subsequent rounds were discharged as well when they cooked off until the slide stopped going into battery.

That makes you wonder how loosely someone has to hold a gun to limp wrist it.

If I recall correctly, the guns were Glocks which are pretty tolerant of less than perfect grips. So far as I remember, only 2 or 3 shots went off this way before the slide failed to go back into battery.

RoadRunnerTR21 wrote:I told my wife about this story yesterday. I told her it was my public service announcement for the day. Last night, she went to our rural community crime watch meeting. Usually they have a deputy from the Sheriff's department show up and talk. As it turns out, the deputy was ill so Sheriff Ray Nutt (Henderson county) attended. At the end of the meeting, my wife said that she wanted to pass along my public service announcement. I guess the Sheriff looked at her and said "somebody really did that?".

That's a sure fire way to get a bang out of baking.

Folks have done worse than what happened in this incident and put the whole loaded gun in the oven. NYPD recorded some of these events in their annual firearms discharge reports back in the 90's.

When the oven was subsequently turned on and the round in the chamber cooked off, it discharged at full velocity. In some cases, the gun cycled successfully and subsequent rounds were discharged as well when they cooked off until the slide stopped going into battery.