US Woman Takes Her Gun Into an MRI Scanner And Gets Seriously Lucky

[Warpy]

(Posted as a cautionary tale for gun owners who feel naked and afraid without their guns)

A 57-year-old Wisconsin woman received superficial wounds to her right buttock earlier this year when a concealed firearm on her person was subjected to the powerful magnetism of an MRI device.

Though her injuries were relatively minor, consisting of a clean entry and exit through subcutaneous tissue, the incident is yet another reminder of the potentially deadly consequences of taking a loaded firearm into places where loaded firearms have no place.
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Given the risk of severe injury or death to one's self and others, stories like these can only serve as a reminder to double check and then check again if you're armed before entering a tube pumping out the magnetism of a few thousand fridge magnets. It just might save your ass.

https://www.sciencealert.com/us-woman-takes-her-gun-into-an-mri-scanner-and-gets-seriously-lucky

Good discussion about how MRI machines work, missed the bit about where metallic objects cast huge shadows and those with moving parts will tend to heat up, warp, and not work any more.

This nitwit probably had a round chambered. Serves her stupid ass right, too bad she probably fucked up the machine.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. I worry about American Stupidity as much as accidents, negligence, and actual criminals

Drivers texting on the roads have become less of a problem. I suppose there was a learning curve. But I've had some serious tonnage straying into my lane over the years and that does worry me a lot. Not so dangerous are drivers texting at green lights and to hell with everyone else's right to driver-like traffic progress.

I worry about accidents and slip-ups too with guns. There is mud, ice, distractions while these clowns go about their business or recreation.

Don't get me wrong, the deranged imbeciles are of concern too, but they are few compared to your generic local incompetent hack.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. In many cases, stupid people can do as much or more damage as evil people. . . nt

[ShazzieB]

7. Absolutely true.

And that is exactly why Hanlon's Razor (never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence) is such a useful and accurate rule!

[thucythucy]

3. Is there the possibility she'll be liable

for the damage to the machine?

And I wonder if scans of other people will have to be delayed because of this.

Not only did she put herself and the device at risk, I expect there was also the possibility of staff being hurt as well.

Most important question of all: was the gun hurt? Fans of the NRA will want to know.

[Warpy]

4. Staff are generally in a hardened area

behind thick walls so their own wristwatches and cell phones don't fry, especially from a high field machine ( probably what she was in). The glass isn't bulletproof, but any round that went into the wall would likely stay there.

It doesn't sound like this gal has much of anything to collect if the machine had a bullet hole in it.

[ShazzieB]

8. The article doesnt mention damage to anthing other than the woman's right buttock.

If the gun was positioned such that the bullet went directly into her butt, I'd say that it probably wasn't able to travel any further. Just more thing for which she should be profoundly grateful!

[democrank]

5. Wait....

Did I really just read what I just read?

[coprolite]

6. Honey, do you know where...

I left my gun?

Between forgetting your gun in your carry on baggage at the airport, your child finding it unsecured in the car or bedside table and shooting a sibling and this....lord these people are stupid.

[mitch96]

9. You look in the dictionary under dumb sob, there will be her picture. My question is why and how did she

get in the room with metal? When I did mri we would interview the patient and they would sign a waiver stating they had no metal on their person. Then we used a hand held metal detector and scanned their body (clothes on) I can't tell you how many times the patient swore up and down they had no metal and we found a bunch. Interviews would find most guns before entering the room.
The funniest was a old Cuban guy who said he had no metal.
Then he said..."No, ¿pero un 45 cuenta?" No but does a 45 count? He then pulls out this rusty old
Colt 45 automatic... Bay of Pig's memento I guess.. Cracked me up!!

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