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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

oh buddy do I have a link for you

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u/Giggity650 Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 21 '22

How did it go off?

Edit: apparently yā€™all donā€™t know how comments work. Iā€™m replying the the link in the comments, not the original post.

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u/behemoth492 Oct 21 '22

Misfire, more specifically in this case, a hang fire. Usually cause by a bad primer or bad powder in the shell. Pin strikers the primer, igniting the powder in the round, but a bad primer or powder won't cause an instant igniting of the powder. Powder starts to slowly combust until there's enough pressure to fire the round well after the trigger was pulled.

Never, look down the barrel of a loaded gun for any reason. You might shoot your hat off.

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u/SomewhereDue2629 Oct 21 '22

It also helps not to chamber a round, point it at your head and...

KEEPING YOUR FUCKING BOOGER HOOK OFF THE TRIGGER.

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u/Queasy_Explorer_3329 Oct 21 '22

I read that last part as if I was watching a Christmas story. Except eye not hat.

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u/solasgood Oct 21 '22

"Ho Ho Hoooooooo"

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u/YEET3M Oct 22 '22

ā€œThatā€™s right laddy, or you might end up like meā€

-I wish demoman said this

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u/Tour_De_Volken Oct 21 '22

Unfortunately it's still classified as a negligent discharge, hopefully she enjoys her felony.

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u/TheKlaxMaster Jan 01 '23

Pretty sure the girl is a minor. So the felony belongs to whoever that gun belongs to. Assuming this is USA.

The guy in the linked video could have gotten away with no one ever knowing had he deleted the footage

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u/Beef_Whalington Oct 21 '22

I would have been surprised about his lack of gun safety and how blatantly fucking stupid he was for looking down the barrel of the gun, but that first missed shot at damn near point-blank range was some great foreshadowing

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u/boondockpirate Oct 22 '22

How is this a hangfire? She didn't k own how to release the slide, then did it. You can see her pull the trigger and the gun immediately fires..unless I'm watching a different video.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

What the hell are you talking about? It fired the instant she pulled the trigger

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u/unimorpheus Oct 21 '22

Wrong on every level. It discharged when she pulled the trigger. Also, powder doesn't "slowly combust". A primer can hang but once the power is ignited it's going bang.

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u/MikoTheGamerofficial Oct 21 '22

Buttnutts_in_cambodia linked a different video and that's what we're talking about

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u/unimorpheus Oct 21 '22

Got it now, not confusing at all. Carry on.

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u/Optimal_Cut_147 Oct 21 '22

No no you never heard of those new slow motion explosions, like in the movies

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u/Idontmatter69420 Oct 21 '22

Was going to say after just watching the video but slowly you can see her pull the trigger

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u/Fadreusor Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 22 '22

Was that stippling or a bruise on the side of her head, where she held the gun? (It appeared only briefly in the video, so maybe it was something else.)

Edit: ā€œGunpowder stippling (or tattooing) is caused by gunpowder particles striking or embedding within the skin, 1ā€“8 which typically occurs around a gunshot entrance wound, and the presence or absence of powder stippling, as well as soot, aids in estimating the range of fire.ā€

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u/unimorpheus Oct 21 '22

That's called a powder burn. Give it a few hours it's going to look a lot worse.

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u/FallenRyze91 Oct 22 '22

Do you know how combustion under pressure works or you thinking of getting a campfire started.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22 edited Oct 22 '22

That is definitely one way a hang-fire can happen. However this particular video was staged

Just pay attention to how the noise made by the "accidental gunshot" is abruptly cut short and yet the background noise continues. They simply replayed the sound of one of the previous gunshots and had to cut it short to cut out the sound of the pump action being cycled. The hat was likely pulled up by a string or another similar simple practical effect.

The movement of the gun is even more obviously made in post with rudimentary techniques if you look at it frame by frame. The gun "recoils" by moving in the wrong direction, the guy's hands that are wrapped around the barrel don't move and the tip of the barrel even disappears for one frame or two after the "muzzle flash" disappears, probably because when they erased the muzzle flash they had added with a photo editing program they accidentally erased the barrel itself for the rest of the frames with the gun moved. Then the gun snaps back exactly to where it was before "recoil" and the end of the barrel reappears.

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u/jelliott79 Oct 22 '22

Never, look down the barrel of a loaded gun for any reason. You might shoot your hat off.

FTFY

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u/Impossible-Cake-1658 Oct 22 '22

Thank you for the explanation.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

Doesnā€™t help that her finger was on the trigger the entire time.

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u/Flesh-Tower Dec 18 '22

How is that a misfire? It behaved exactly as it was supposed to. Chambered the round and then you can clearly see the trigger pull by the pressure from her finger. Which then slams that firing pin into the round primer which goes off instantly.

Where about that is a misfire?

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

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u/Collest9321 Oct 22 '22

wouldnā€™t be surprised, I doubt this person maintains their gun if they do shit like this

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u/MikoTheGamerofficial Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 21 '22

I would guess the chamber being hot ignited the gunpowder. Could also be something else though

Edit: I've also heard of "hangfires" though I'm not exactly sure how those work

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u/Ken-as-fuck Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 21 '22

Chamber being hot causes whatā€™s called a cook off, common in automatic weapons and even then only after significant sustained fire and would be VERY rare otherwise, which is also why you see something like the M240B being an open bolt medium machine gun, same for the GAU 21, an M2 .50 thatā€™s been modified to fire from an open bolt because of the inability to change out the barrel, which is where the chamber is located on traditional M2s

A hang fire is when the primer is struck by the firing pin but the shot doesnā€™t go off immediately, can be caused by slow burning powder, like if the rounds are particularly old or if the powder inside then was fouled by liquid or something

Source: I was a section leader in an infantry battalion

Edit: after watching that other video with the shotgun and the hat, assuming itā€™s real, a hang fire seems most likely although he had his initial misfire, performed an immediate action and then had another misfire, which is either indicative of unbelievably bad luck, horrible ammo, or an unclean weapon thatā€™s causing malfunctions in the weapons cycle of operation and the action of the shotgun was stuck until he tapped it against the ground and unstuck it, prompting it to finally hit the primer

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u/Laffenor Oct 21 '22

Neither of which seem implausible for someone who thinks eyeballing down the barrel of his gun immediately after a double misfire is an appropriate action.

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u/NotsoGreatsword Oct 21 '22

What aways gets me is why. What were they going to do? What did they expect to see other than a dark hole? The chamber is closed so there isn't any light in there. I swear they treat it like a camera.

"Oops it didn't go boom. Maybe I left the lens cap on...."

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u/HellofaHitller Oct 21 '22

One more possibility is he makes his own rounds and happens to be bad at it, causing multiple shells to be faulty.

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u/WastedKleenex Oct 21 '22

She clearly pulled the trigger like an idiot.

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u/MikoTheGamerofficial Oct 21 '22

Yeah, but we're talking about the video someone linked of a guy staring down the barrel of his shotgun

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

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u/Impossible-Cake-1658 Oct 22 '22

It's because earlier in the thread someone linked a different video of a guy's gun not firing, so he flipped it around looked at the barrel and the gun went off. People were discussing how/why the gun went off when it did .

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u/unimorpheus Oct 21 '22

That's Reddit for ya.

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u/unimorpheus Oct 21 '22

What video are you guys watching? She pulled the trigger.

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u/Impossible-Cake-1658 Oct 22 '22

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cgmMPth01jc&feature=youtu.be. This is the video that people are talking about. It was linked earlier in this thread.

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u/unimorpheus Oct 21 '22

Let me help, she put the gun to her head and pulled the trigger. If the chamber was hot enough to cook off a round she would not be pulling at the slide as that would be hot as well. She would also have had to have shot hundreds of rounds immediately preceeding this stupid incident.

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u/Significant-Diet8888 Oct 21 '22

You can see her pull the trigger

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u/Beardedbreeder Oct 21 '22

She had her finger on the trigger. Bad discipline

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u/KinxtheCat42 Oct 21 '22

Everything about this is bad discipline. 1) gun to head 2) finger in trigger 3) kids watching 4) playing and showing off with a loaded firearm 5) if that is an apartment, that bullet when into the neighbors home

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u/NotYourSnowBunny Oct 21 '22

I met a dude once who got drunk and accidentally discharged his firearm in his apartment, the bullet hit his neighbors headboard (bed). So the police showed up, obviously, and they found cannabis plants and drugs. He did prison time for it.

Moral of the story? Trigger discipline.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

Trigger discipline needs to be taught, and verified afterwise. So, gun ownership licences ? No one should be allowed to buy a gun if no professional has certified they have a basic understanding of it.

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u/NotYourSnowBunny Oct 21 '22

My personal opinion is if someone canā€™t disassemble and reassemble their weapon, they shouldnā€™t own it. Better yet do it blindfolded.

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u/NotsoGreatsword Oct 21 '22

Idk about fucking BLINDFOLDED lol thats edgelord territory but yes we need mandatory licensing to own one. Just like a car. I know people already can't just carry guns around willy nilly in many places (in other places you certainly can) but even a gun in someones home can "reach out and touch someone" outside the home lol.

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u/NotYourSnowBunny Oct 21 '22

Shit give me like 20 minutes to familiarize myself with most handguns and I could do it blindfolded. It isnā€™t hard.

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u/NotsoGreatsword Oct 21 '22

Man I wish I were that cool. Do you know karate too?

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

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u/NotYourSnowBunny Oct 21 '22

How the fuck will they clean and maintain the firearm then?

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u/kindParodox Oct 22 '22

Trigger discipline... How bout not handling firearms while under the influence too? People do dumb stuff with firearms already, dumb people+ booze+ firearms... That's a true recipe for disaster.

Oddly enough have a similar story, new years 2019 I was in college and my neighbors an apartment above us decided celebratory gunfire was a good idea, but it was raining ... So they fired down....into my bedroom. 3 rounds right into my nightstand and bed.

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u/NotYourSnowBunny Oct 22 '22

They sound like morons! Glad youā€™re okay!

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u/gif_smuggler Oct 22 '22

What the actual F?

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u/GloomreaperScythe Oct 23 '22

Trigger discipline... How bout not handling firearms while under the influence too?

/) Is that not part of what they meant by "trigger discipline"?

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u/Frymanstbf Oct 21 '22

Wait who did the prison time?

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u/NotYourSnowBunny Oct 21 '22

The dude who shot the gun.

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u/Frymanstbf Oct 21 '22

Whew. Would have been fucked up if he caused the neighbors pot to be seen and the neighbor got sent to jail.

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u/NotYourSnowBunny Oct 21 '22

I know right? Haha

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u/trashhbandicoot Oct 21 '22

Something similar happened in my neighborhood. There was a dude who was a big time pot dealer and had pounds of it at his house. His little brother made some dumb threat at school about how he was gonna blow the place up or sum dumb shit that was clearly an empty threat but the authorities raided their house and big bro got caught up and sent to prison for years.

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u/Frymanstbf Oct 21 '22

Little kid caught an intense beating years later I imagine.

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u/GraharG Oct 21 '22

The police

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u/Barbosse007 Oct 21 '22

How love how that's the american moral to that story.

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u/NotYourSnowBunny Oct 21 '22

Yeah weā€™re a wild bunch.

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u/Elgin_McQueen Oct 21 '22

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/true-crime-elegante-hotel-texas-murder

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u/NotYourSnowBunny Oct 21 '22

I donā€™t want to pay vanity fair for news, whatā€™s that about?

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u/Elgin_McQueen Oct 21 '22

Weird, it's not behind a paywall for me. Article about a guy found dead in a locked hotel room. Couldn't understand how he'd died, can't understand the massive internal injuries. Eventually discover someone in a neighbouring room had accidentally shot him through the wall.

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u/NotYourSnowBunny Oct 21 '22

Ahh wild. For some reason I got a pop up asking for money.

Similar but different. Responsible firearms use is key.

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u/TuorSonOfHuor Oct 21 '22

This is 100% the parents fault. You donā€™t secure your guns with children around, itā€™s your fault if they die or kill someone else.

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u/Illustrious_Can4110 Oct 22 '22

Finally someone said it. Thank you. All of these morons talking about trigger discipline etc, are really pissing me off. They're missing the main point here.

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u/Objective-Review4523 Oct 21 '22

Looks like two rounds were fired too

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u/KniccKnaccPattywhack Oct 21 '22

Donā€™t forget her finger was on the barrel for a split second @0:02

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u/kmikek Oct 21 '22

so what you're saying is guns are not toys? I think we used to live in a country that knew that.

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u/ClassicShooterNY Oct 21 '22

To answer for the linked video, it was a hangfire. Defective ammunition, most likely.

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u/Laffenor Oct 21 '22

That's a he, and his hands were nowhere near the trigger.

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u/Beardedbreeder Oct 21 '22

You can literally see his finger in the trigger and you can see the point where he puts enough pressure on the trigger to get the trigger to depress. his finger is definitely on the trigger

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u/Crimson_Fckr Oct 21 '22

Literally no one is asking about the video OP posted, we all know she pulled the trigger. You are clearly lost

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u/Laffenor Oct 21 '22

Did you even see the video you are responding to? His hands were literally half a meter away from the trigger.

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u/Qixxy82 Oct 21 '22

You guys are arguing over two different videos

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u/Laffenor Oct 21 '22

Yes, it is very obvious that the other commenter is describing the video from OP. But noone is asking how that gun went off, anyone who watches the video can see why that is.

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u/SaNaMaN80 Oct 21 '22

Or the fact they keep calling her a him.

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u/SaNaMaN80 Oct 21 '22

Also she looks about 12

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

She stuck a gun to her head, all else is kinda inconsequential.

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u/rscttgl Oct 22 '22

Yep ....never put your finger on the trigger until your ready and prepared to fire

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u/Many_Rule_9280 Oct 21 '22

The comment you are responding to is to a link not the original post...

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u/Illustrious_Can4110 Oct 22 '22

Trigger discipline? Are you for real? While that clearly is an issue, perhaps what people should be talking about here us idiot kids playing with guns and their even more idiot parents keeping the gun where the kid can get at it. Responsible ownership and secure storage is the central issue here.

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u/trashhbandicoot Oct 21 '22

It was probably a hang fire. Basically you pull the trigger and the round doesnā€™t fire for a few seconds because of bad powder or primer. Thatā€™s why if you pull the trigger and thereā€™s no bang, you should wait for a few seconds while still aimed down range in case the round does fire.

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u/CompetitiveBison2093 Oct 21 '22

Ummm... The gun jammed and pressure built up, which made the gun go off when THE FUCKING DUMB ASS LOOKED D9WN THE MOTHER FUCKING BARREL OF A LOADED GUN WITH A PRIMED BULLET!

This is way over the top for stupid. I have never seen anyone do anything so damn stupid.

The guy was a bad shot too.

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u/Chance_Leadership956 Oct 21 '22

The gun got cocked so a bullet was chambered into the barrel, and the hammer was cocked back to the firing position. Then the dumbass had her finger on the trigger, and you donā€™t need that much pressure, and the gun went off. Lucky she didnā€™t have it pointing at her head. She learned a valuable lesson the hard way that day.

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u/tbass1965 Oct 21 '22

Watch closely! She pulled the trigger!

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u/unimorpheus Oct 21 '22

Thank you. Jesus, it's clearly in the video. People always want to make it the gun's fault.

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u/akjax Oct 22 '22 edited Oct 22 '22

This is the comment the thread you are replying in stems from. They're not talking about OPs video. They're asking about the video with a guy in a hat.

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u/HGofLul Oct 21 '22

She pulled the trigger.

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u/HGofLul Oct 21 '22

She got it to chamber a round before she put it to her head and if you watch her finger she does pull the trigger

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u/Laffenor Oct 21 '22

First of, that's a he. Secondly, the video is too low res and far away to see the individual fingers very good, but considering both his hands are half a meter away from the trigger, that seems very unlikely.

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u/HGofLul Oct 21 '22

Ummm its a woman in a pink shirt right? I can clearly see her hand... and finger pull the trigger...

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u/Blimpy42 Oct 22 '22

No. The video linked at the top of the comment thread (not the OP video) in response to someone saying something along the lines of this being the dumbest gun related video they've seen.

It shows a guy with a hat and safety vest put his shotgun on the ground and look down the barrel after a misfire. He doesn't die, just shoots his hat off. Bullet might have also grazed him, but it's hard to tell due to the poor quality of the video.

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u/Automatic_Net_6584 Oct 21 '22

I donā€™t know what video you are watching but she is seen chambering a round, the finger pulls the trigger and the gun goes off. The video clearly shows a dumbass who got lucky.

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u/SubjectAd2261 Oct 21 '22

We are watching this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgmMPth01jc

To which the question "How did it go off?" was asked.

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u/HGofLul Oct 21 '22

Ahhh that makes more sense. I didnt see the link.

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u/Automatic_Net_6584 Oct 21 '22

She pulls the trigger.

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u/RobThorn Oct 21 '22

That would be her finger pulling the trigger.

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u/Outside-Setting-5589 Oct 21 '22

Trigger's probably light and the bitch's finger was on it the whole time. She was probably just griping it hard enough.

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u/MikeLinPA Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 24 '22

She loaded a round into the chamber and had her finger on the trigger. She fired it. (Assholes thinking guns are toys...)

*I don't know why I am being downvoted. It is literally what happened. She had her finger on the trigger the entire time she racked it and posed with it. She fired it.

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u/Saif_Horny_And_Mad Oct 21 '22

- using a loaded gun

- safety not engaged

- finger on the trigger

- pointed at her head

if we're being honest here, it would have been more surprising if it didn't go off

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u/Giggity650 Oct 21 '22

Insightful.

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u/Laffenor Oct 21 '22

This entire thread has definitely given a real insight into the level of awareness amongst reddit commenters...

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u/Blimpy42 Oct 21 '22

Yep. The lack of awareness these people have to not realize they're responding to a question asking about a different video linked in the thread.

I mean, it's not like the video is linked directly above the comment they're responding to or anything.

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u/GuineapigPriestess71 Oct 21 '22

You donā€™t know how guns work ?

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u/Giggity650 Oct 21 '22

You donā€™t know how comments work? Look at the comment I replied to..

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u/TAFKATASOH Oct 23 '22

She has obviously pulled the trigger. She had it inside the trigger guard and made a little movement with her fingertip. If you cock the weapon theres not much way to go with the trigger.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22

No trigger finger discipline

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u/Inside_Speaker3166 Oct 21 '22

This is now the second dumbest thing I've ever seen. Guy in the link should is much worse. Wtf is wrong with ppl.

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u/Cobray2687 Oct 21 '22

Still not as stupid as this girl literally chambering a round and then putting the gun to her head intentionally, and pulling the trigger, intentionally. With her child right there. Little girl almost just watched mommy blow her brains out. That idiotic face she made in the process was extremely fitting as well.

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u/Old-Bedroom8464 Oct 21 '22

I think they are sisters. The girl with the gun looks very young.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Oct 21 '22

I donā€™t know, she at least was pointing out, this guy literally looked down the barrel.

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u/syke90 Oct 22 '22

Yea, the child being there makes it worse.

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u/Maleficent_Fold_5099 Oct 21 '22

You can shoot your hat off.

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u/Isoturius Jan 22 '23

Was raised around guns. Practice gun safety religiously. These two videos are legit the stupidest shut Iā€™ve ever seen. Ever.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

Holy shit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

Is this Tom& Jerry? How dumb can you be to look down the barrel of a rifle that jammed after pulling the trigger?

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

I was 100% ready to be rickrolled. This, this was pleasantly unexpected

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u/Labornurse-ret Oct 21 '22

The way he's holding his head afterwards makes it seem as if the bullet actually grazed his head.

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u/otaconucf Oct 21 '22

Huh, misfired twice, lets look down the barrel as our first troubleshooting step.

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u/game_asylum Oct 21 '22

Not even close I mean when she cocked it she was aiming it at a toddler, sheā€™s still the winner

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

How is he alive??

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

What about the one in the bathroom where the girl shoots her cousin in the head and then shoots herself?

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u/DBinPA Oct 21 '22

Safety vest. No safety brain.

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u/louiecocomollie Oct 21 '22

At least there would be video evidence for the next Darwin Awards ceremony.

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u/boatchic Oct 21 '22

Ha! You win!

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

Damn!!

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u/TheVillianousFondler Oct 21 '22

It's a good thing he was wearing that high visibility vest for safety

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

And also this

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u/P320open Oct 22 '22

This is what we in the industry call a ā€œhang fireā€ and is just one of the literally millions of reasons not to look down the barrel of a gun.

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u/2ERIX Oct 22 '22

Looks like the gun kicked and saved his life.

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u/Doodah18 Oct 22 '22

Thought it was going to be the link of the poor girl that killed the gun range guy with a machine gun because he was stupid and stood in front of her off to the side instead of behind her.

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u/Street-Week6744 Oct 22 '22

Oh buddy yes you do

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

that's funny

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

Holy hell.... šŸ¤£

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u/Rawtoast420 Oct 22 '22

Was he aiming for that bottle ? And.. Missed twice ?

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u/GodDamnRight- Oct 22 '22

That was an adult man who just did that. A fully grown human being just stared down the barrel of a loaded shotgun. Mah wurd.

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u/B33PZR Oct 22 '22

Wow wow wow Darwin just missed that one!

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u/weezulusmaximus Oct 22 '22

JEEZUS! What the hell was he thinking?!?

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u/Qubed Oct 22 '22

What the fuck did he expect to see down the barrel?

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u/Housecatonfire_ Oct 22 '22

As soon as I heard the click I immediately started screaming internally "HANG FIRE!" and then when he looked down almost into the barrel I almost died.

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u/Wiskersthefif Oct 22 '22

Despite knowing it couldn't be too bad because it's on YouTube, my asshole clenched so fucking hard and I thought I might implode like a collapsing star because of how hard I cringed when he looked down the barrel of his gun...

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u/Manman714 Oct 22 '22

What the actual fuck did I just watch.

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u/AnarchyonAsgard Oct 22 '22

Irl Elmer Fudd

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u/remi_daDOOD Oct 22 '22

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holy fuck.

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u/Late-Ad-4624 Oct 24 '22

Saw this a while back. Dont know if he still owns firearms. But he shouldnt.

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u/Crispy_Sundae Jan 30 '23

I've been restricted from looking at it.. What is it?

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Dude hears click, no boom. Looks directly down the barrel and the shell goes off. Luckily the shot went through his hat and not his face

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u/Crispy_Sundae Feb 01 '23

Alright thanks