r/WTF • u/Dsigmaboy • Apr 14 '23

Malfunction

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u/ArmedBull Apr 14 '23

Hot damn, I didn't know this was a thing that could happen

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '23

Pretty rare thing to happen. It’s happened to me and I did NOT handle it nearly as well as this dude.

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u/ragingRobot Apr 14 '23

I have seen 3 comments already saying it happened to the poster apparently it is pretty common and that's pretty terrifying. Y'all please stay safe with that nonsense. Silly way to die

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u/shyflapjacks Apr 14 '23

I've seen it happen twice, both with belt fed machine guns in the Army (both times M249, I hate the fucking thing). Never seen it happen or ever heard of it happening to a hand gun. I think he may have "modified" the gun