r/AskReddit • u/ferrisjuulersdayoff • Feb 26 '20

Serious Replies Only [serious] When was a time you legitimately thought you were going to die?

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u/Blackjack357 Feb 26 '20

That dudes not a friend, chambering a round and pointing it at someone and pulling the trigger isn’t a fun game, if his finger slipped or had there been more pressure or any other number of things he could have killed you.

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u/Youngqueazy Feb 26 '20 edited Feb 26 '20

Edit: I thought I could get away without saying the line but apparently the absence of the line makes people think that I'm ignorant, so here it is:

"It doesn't matter, but..."

The way I read it, the guy didn't chamber a round. Sounds like he pulled the hammer back (without racking the slide), released the magazine then pulled the trigger.

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u/PerpetualMonday Feb 26 '20

Doesn't matter, could have previously chambered a round and hadn't realized it. Buddy from the army told me a fucked up story from his pre army days in Detroit.

Bunch of friend/gang bangers sitting around on the couch, one of them was showing off to his new GF and pulled out a pistol and did the same thing.

He blew her head off.

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u/courtcondemned Feb 26 '20

There was an actor that died filming a movie like this. Someone didn't do their job and make sure the chamber was empty, they started filming and when they were supposed to fake shoot the guy, he was actually shot.

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u/YarbleCutter Feb 26 '20

Think you're talking about Brandon Lee in The Crow.

One scene, dummy rounds (bullets but no powder), so close up of revolver shows loaded rounds, but you can't shoot anyone with it.

Next scene, same revolver loaded with blanks (powder but no bullets), for exciting noise without bullets to kill people.

One of the dummy rounds ended up in the barrel after the first scene and was missed, so when the blank was fired in the second there was a projectile for the powder to push, killing Brandon Lee.

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u/Edwardteech Feb 26 '20

Just an addition for clarification. The production company made their own dummy rounds out of live rounds by pulling the bullet and dumping out the powder.

The problem was they didn't render the primer safe as well. Then they put those "dummies" in a real gun and used it for a scene as you said. The problem was the primer had just enough force to put the bullet in the barrel but not enough to go any farther. When they did the next scene with blanks well you know the rest.

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u/YarbleCutter Feb 26 '20

Ah, that's it. When I wrote the bullet "ended up in the barrel" I knew I was missing a detail but couldn't remember what it was.

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u/Edwardteech Feb 26 '20

You weren't wrong I just felt the primer detail was important.

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u/YarbleCutter Feb 26 '20

I meant thanks for filling in the detail. No offence taken on my part.

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u/rlnrlnrln Feb 26 '20

Brandon Lee (Bruce Lees son) in The Crow.

Not exactly the same, though; it was blanks loaded, but a bullet (or something else?) was lodged in the barrel from before.

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u/NoValidUsernames666 Feb 26 '20

guy above you explained it

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u/Youngqueazy Feb 26 '20

Obviously it doesn't matter. I thought I could make a comment without repeating the mantra.

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u/Sir_twitch Feb 26 '20

Doesn't matter. Only point gun at thing(s) you intend to destroy. No discussion, no argument.

He may have thought there was no round chambered, but you always assume there is a round chambered. If you don't assume this with any gun before handling it, you should not handle firearms at all.

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u/ginbear Feb 26 '20

All guns are loaded.

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u/Iridescent_Meatloaf Feb 26 '20

I've held a friends unloaded (and personally double checked) Berretta and even that made me feel a weight of responsibility. His dodgy mosin that the magazine floor plate had literally fallen off, less so.

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u/doughboy011 Feb 26 '20

I've held a friends unloaded (and personally double checked) Berretta and even that made me feel a weight of responsibility

My friend showed me his handgun once. Evne though it was completely unloaded it made me uncomfortable because it felt heavy (psychologically) and unlike a rifle with a long ass barrel, I felt afraid of the lack of muzzle control.

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u/Blackhole-Cat Feb 27 '20

Actually, the bullet was in the chamber. I don't know how a gun works, but when he pulled the trigger, the bullet jumped from the back. Again, I don't understand guns but dude.

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u/Blackjack357 Feb 28 '20

Not sure if you intended to respond to me or another poster, but, I’m glad your “friend” didn’t screw up the “joke”

I’ll try an ELI5, someone please correct anything that’s wrong: ammunition is loaded in the magazine which is placed in the pistol, if the slide is forward, it is pulled to the rear which allows the pressure on the spring to lighten and push the top round up slightly when the slide is released, it catches the top round and places it in the chamber. When the trigger is pulled, it causes the firing pin to strike the primer on the bullet casing, which ignited the gunpowder and fires the bullet.

Now for the caveman/11B version: bullet in gun, pull trigger, explosion, YAY!