They're not as used to having opposable thumbs as we are.
Scorching bro haha, nice. But to be fair I have a couple powder marks from guns with strange gas systems, hurts like hell for weeks.
Btw. seems to be in Brazil.
If it a FAL pattern rifle, the charging handle doesn't move after the weapon is charged or firing.
Thankyou
Yep, my L1A1 is none reciprocating, hell it folds and locks. This guy will not be harmed firing like this.
By Brazilian standards, would the depicted soldier be considered black?
Not if the bolt handle is non reciprocating
Looks similar to a L1A1 (FN FAL).
I have fired a C1 A1 before cant remember about the charging handle
Don't know about a C1 A1 but the L1A1 or FN FAL, whichever you prefer, has the charging handle on the left side of the receiver and isn't reciprocating. It doesn't travel with the bolt after firing.
He'll go for full disability
raise your hand if youve done this only once.
Okay, time to put a spotlight on my own stupidity. As a kid the only handguns id shot were revolvers. Then went camping with my brother and sone friends when i was a teenager. Got really drunk and decided to shoot his .40 cal. Had my thumb up. Slide split my thumb open. Instantly numb from the force of it, and i was shitfaced which helped. Only made that mistake once.
14 years old and while watching TV while my dad was out working I took his Ruger Blackhawk out of it's sheep skin case and pulled the hammer back. I'm just messing about like a dumb teenager. Suddenly I realized that that I had no way known to me to return it to a safe position. It had a trigger interlock system and by pulling the hammer back the interlock system had gone down into firing position. It was now cocked and ready to fire. WTF? What the hell did I just do? How can I return it to a safe position and get the safety interlock system to come back up to protect the firing pin from accidental discharge. As I stared in horror at what I had done I finally decided to replace it to it's sheep skin case and return it to the shelf I had taken it from.
So, I sat there with my brother beside me on the couch to my right pondering my problem. No solution came to mind but I had to do something. If my father found out I would be in serious trouble. I'd only been allowed to fire it once in my father's presence and knew very little of it's function.
So, not saying anything to my older brother I took down the case once more and carefully unzipped it. The heavy revolver slid out and landed on the floor hammer first. It went off. A huge blast of flame shot up past the right side of my face. I was so glad nothing had happened to me. So lucky. Then I noticed the tear in the right thigh of my pants. "Oh" I thought, well, thankfully it had only ripped my pants. Looking closer I saw a bit of blood. So it's just a scratch I thought. Maybe just a light graze? Then pulled the rip open a bit and saw a gaping hole down into the meat of my thigh. "Oh shit, oh damn, I'm really in trouble" I thought. My brother looked over and said, "What did you do!!!???". Me: " I shot myself". I was in a state of shock. He offered to load me up on his motorcycle and take me to hospital. There was a chance we could keep this quiet and get me out of trouble and I jumped up at the chance and followed him out the door. As I stepped out the door a large hamburger glob of meat squirted out the back of my leg with all wet and bloody. It was surreal. Still, I felt no pain at all, not even a small sensation. How odd was that. Not at all like the movies where the people cry out in pain and agony straight away.
As I got on the back of his motorbike I felt a bit woozy. I told my brother I might fall off and get really injured, I was scared. In reality, I would have been fine as there was very little bleeding, just a bit of blood ooze but being scared I got off and laid down on the ground and waited till the came back a half hour later with my grandmother and her station wagon. In the meantime a neighbor came over and asked me if I was alright. I was angry and told him "Ya, I'm fine, I like to lay about bleeding man. If you can't help me get lost!". I'm surprised he didn't kick me for that but he calmly walked off to leave me to it.
In the hospital after laying about on a gurney for about an hour my grandmother gave them permission to use me for education purposes. They split open the wound from entry to exit to show off the fantastic trajectory of the .44 magnum hollow point and the damage it left. Then the stuffed it with gauze or some sort of packing material and let me be for a day or so. When next a group of medical students showed up with a couple doctors they just ripped that gauze out with no pain killers at all. I'm gonna tell you, it was the most horrific pain I have ever had in my life. Nothing compares to it, not even having a root canal with no anesthetics and I've been through that also. Don't ask me how that happened, because it's inconceivable that the dentist wouldn't realize she totally missed my nerve and went ahead anyway the whole time telling me it doesn't hurt.
Anyway, other than the severed nerves, my leg healed up fairly well and I have a lovely scar and a huge dent in my leg to this day to remind me why fire arm safety is important and why you shouldn't handle a weapon you know nothing about.
the dentist wouldn't realize she
Explains everything.
Fascinating story about the revolver. The old Westerns make it look easy to slowly ride the hammer home with your thumb while you pull the trigger, but it's suddenly a lot less easy when the gun is in your hand.
Yikes! Lucky, I guess.
It usually only happens once in a person's life!
If that's a FAL, then it's non-reciprocating. He's safe. From the weapon, that is. From Brazil itself....unlikely.
Unfortunately her teammates will have to pay in case she keeps her finger held on the trigger after hurting herself
Does anyone know what rifle that is? I've never seen one with the bolt on the left side.
Beats me, looks like it takes STANAG mags though, so, something shooting 5.56.
Info-gathering post disguised as humor.
Intention is to weed out who has military or at least firearms experience.
And thats all this is.
He'll be fine
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