If my memory serves, some singer/actor blew his brains out with a blank — he held the pistol against his temple and even though there was no bullet his headbone became one.
Another thing with blackpowder, you can make it detonate if you put in too much and pack it too much so it gets too hot before it gets a chance to burn itself out of the barrel.
What John said. I keep offering to write all the gun articles for my local ‘news’ rag, if they’ll just put me on their payroll. I figure I could make them look about a million times more credible…
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:06 am
“It’s unclear how the toilet paper was propelled from the firearm if there was no bullet.”
Not enough physics classes needed for that journalism degree…
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:20 am
If my memory serves, some singer/actor blew his brains out with a blank — he held the pistol against his temple and even though there was no bullet his headbone became one.
Another thing with blackpowder, you can make it detonate if you put in too much and pack it too much so it gets too hot before it gets a chance to burn itself out of the barrel.
July 24th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
What John said. I keep offering to write all the gun articles for my local ‘news’ rag, if they’ll just put me on their payroll. I figure I could make them look about a million times more credible…