If the NRA ever decided to commission a TV show that’s like Jackass meets Shooting USA, it might look like the video above. Strike that. It might look EXACTLY like the video above. The jackass in question has been a busy boy, shooting off 300-some-odd rounds in an AK-47, quickly enough to catch the foregrip on fire. Stop and think for a moment just how hot the barrel would have to get to accomplish this feat. I don’t know at what temperature wood will catch fire (if the foregrip was made of paper, I could tell you. 451°.) After marveling at the physics of it all, let’s stop for the nonce and consider what kind of moron would shoot a gun in a way to make it catch on fire. I’m no metallurgist, but you gotta come from the shallow end of the gene pool if you think you can heat metal hot enough to burn wood and not assume that you’re risking metal fatigue or some kind of catastrophic event with the barrel in the near future. (Exploding barrel…meet moron. Moron…meet exploding barrel.)
Cell Phones & Guns Don’t Mix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIjkBVEtyE Color me stunned. And allow me to be the first to offer up a bad pun, namely that this brings a whole ‘nuther dimension to shootin’ one’s mouth off. About the only saving grace of what has got to be one of the most stupid, irresponsible, and yet simultaneously and oddly fascinating ideas I’ve … Read more
