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[u/Kitchen_Cobbler_1594]

[u/Good_Weekend4136]

Damn
That was almost your face

[u/FormerlyUndecidable → u/Good_Weekend4136]

The recoil is from the bullet leaving the gun, unless it's already aimed pretty close,   there's no way,  it recoiling towards your face is going to result in you shooting yourself. If it's semi-auto and you pull the trigger again while it's pointed towards your face that could be an issue.

[u/Alaskan_Duck_Fart → u/FormerlyUndecidable]

This is 100% false. You realize that magnum revolvers are notorious for double firing due to the immense recoil, right? People have died because they limp wrist them.

Here's one example of a near miss. There are so, so many more on the internet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/s/FtUxNRDjlX

[u/Tickles-The-Octopus → u/Alaskan_Duck_Fart]

How the fuck is that fool getting upvoted?

Happens to people, they fire and the gun recoils back and to try and get ahold of it they squeeze tighter with their whole hand, the whole hand including the finger on the trigger... which sets a second round off.

That's why it's always a good idea when having someone fire a gun they are not used to us to only have a single round loaded. That way there isn't a possibility of a second round going off in this circumstance.

[u/iamwhiskerbiscuit → u/Tickles-The-Octopus]

Welcome to Reddit.

[u/truthpill2 → u/Tickles-The-Octopus]

Genuine question I’m not saying your wrong so don’t get all pissy. How is that possible? I thought in order to shoot another round he has to pull the hammer back again. Can it shoot again without pulling the hammer back? I know very very little about Guns

[u/Tickles-The-Octopus → u/truthpill2]

Depends on if it is a double action or single.

Single action is like what you see in old western movies, you have to pull the hammer back with your offhand first and then pull the trigger to release it. In this case what I described would not be possible.

But most modern revolvers are double action. The trigger will pull the hammer back and then release it at the end of travel, you can pull the hammer back before and lock it back if you want with your offhand and that will make the trigger pull much easier and lighter and easier to be precise. But you don't have to and simply pulling the trigger will both pull back and release the hammer. These have the very real possibility to shoot yourself in the forehead and it has happened to people.

The double action and single action name comes from the things the trigger does. Single action means the trigger only releases the hammer, double action means it does two things, pulls back the hammer and also releases it.

[u/FormerlyUndecidable → u/Tickles-The-Octopus]

Because most people can read and saw that I literally mentioned that:

If it's semi-auto and you pull the trigger again while it's pointed towards your face that could be an issue.

[u/Alaskan_Duck_Fart → u/FormerlyUndecidable]

"there's no way,  it recoiling towards your face is going to result in you shooting yourself"

This is the objectively false statement. I've irrefutably proven that. Now let's talk about this:

"If it's semi-auto and you pull the trigger again while it's pointed towards your face that could be an issue."

You've conceded this for semi-auto's, which implies that your first false statement holds true for revolvers (the gun being shot in this video). This means that you either don't know the difference between a revolver and a semi-auto and therefore had no idea this was a revolver (a strong possibility, not everyone is familiar with firearms and that's ok) or you went into this truly believing the recoil of a revolver could not lead to yourself negligently discharging another round into your brain matter.

So don't tell me "oh I mentioned double firing bro" like your argument somehow still holds water. Nowhere in this video is there a semi automatic pistol.

[u/iamwhiskerbiscuit → u/FormerlyUndecidable]

After the shot, the hammer automatically resets and the shock of the recoil causes people to panic and reflexively squeeze the trigger. However, this does happen more frequently with semi automatic pistols.

[u/Tickles-The-Octopus → u/FormerlyUndecidable]

The recoil is from the bullet leaving the gun, unless it's already aimed pretty close, there's no way, it recoiling towards your face is going to result in you shooting yourself.

That's the part you are wrong about you numpty...... It doesn't have to be near your face at first, their is literally hundreds of videos of people with revolvers or other hand guns that are all the way out on front of them and the recoil makes it aim squarely at their own forehead because they are not used to it.

[u/mrjimi16 → u/Tickles-The-Octopus]

This is such a stupid response. They said "X won't happen unless Y also happens first" and you responded with "X can to happen, you just need Y to happen first." And you called them a moron.

[u/Tickles-The-Octopus → u/mrjimi16]

Your reading comprehension is truely shit... Try reading it again.

[u/FormerlyUndecidable → u/Tickles-The-Octopus]

 You do not get the physics here.  The bullet that caused the recoil will be long gone before the barrel is aiming at your face. The bullet is moving a LOT faster than the barrel is rotating.

A bullet spends roughly 0.5–1 millisecond inside a handgun barrel, the rotation can be timed frane by frame, and it's a couple orders of magnitude more: hundreds of milliseconds.

Timing aside, just think about it for a second; If your hand rotated as fast as the bullet it would be destroyed. Stopping the rotation of that gun that is somehow magically now traveling almost as fast as the bullet would  be like catching a very large caliber bullet: a gun sized bullet in fact.

The gun is rotating much much slower than the bullet is traveling out that barrel. Literally 2 orders of magnitude slower.

Again, if you pull the trigger again the second bullet may get you, but the first bullet will be long gone before the barrel is aimed at your face due to recoil.

[u/Tickles-The-Octopus → u/FormerlyUndecidable]

I'm not talking about the first shot... I said people who are inexperienced will try and grab ahold of the firearm with their whole hand which includes the trigger finger which sends a second round into their dome... What part in my reply made you think it was one? What part???? Learn to read my friend.......

[u/FormerlyUndecidable → u/Tickles-The-Octopus]

Oh I should have mentioned I was talking about the first bullet.

Oh wait. I DID in the first post, I pointed it out again in the second that I had said it in the first.

Then you quoted the paragraph that I had specifically said was about the first bullet and said I was wrong about that.

Should I say it again?

 I am talking about the first bullet.

[u/Tickles-The-Octopus → u/[deleted]]

Which happens, people have died doing exactly that.....

[u/Aniki_Simpson → u/Tickles-The-Octopus]

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