Glock blew up in hand

[tfcmasta97]

holy ******, so like... your hand works perfectly fine again? with all parts reattatched?

 

[AndrewR]

If the magazine did blow out the bottom of the weapon violently, and the person firing was using the old cup and saucer grip, the injuries are conceivable, but I'm not looking that the picture again to make a proper assessment.

Nasty.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Gosh that guy needs Luke Skywalker therapy.

 

[dquan97]

"And that's how Captain Hook got his name"

 

[essasin]

I hope this is BS

 

[Cattlegod]

im' drunk and i'm calling shens.!!!

wtf, thaty is so shens it makes me shens myself.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Damage to the weapon does not fit the damage to the hand. The magazine seems to have come apart, yet the handle, slide and barrel are still intact. I call BS.

I was thinking the same thing, unless they accidentally load bullets with a C4 charge :roll:

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
the pics compute in my opinion... there are two major incisions in the hand and 2 major pieces of crap that flew off?

The hand is too mangled for what happened to the gun, the index finger and thumb are competely gone, the middle finger is hanging on apparently by some bit of skin or tendon. The hand is also halfway severed from the wrist(or so it appears hard to tell cuz the pic is small and only one angle)

The trauma looks to be either explosive or some sort of mangling/crush injury, maybe catching a hand in a harvester combine...but not a glock 'blowing' up

EDIT: I dont think it's explosive because of no apparent burning on the skin, probably some mangling/sheer trauma

well, the piece would cut right through it all... shopping off the index and slicing through the middle finger and beyond

Hold your hand like you are holding a pistol...maybe it'd make some nasty lacerations but..not in the sort of trauma seen in that picture.

Maybe some ammo went off and jammed up the gun, and when he took the magazine out and started hitting it against the wall to get the rest of the cartridges out, it blew up

 

[Conky]

I've looked at these pics and I have several questions. What model is that Glock.. it is obviously either a 26, 27, 29, 30, or 33?

I also wonder if, assuming this pic is real, if the shooter being a lefty accidentally hit the magazine release which caused an explosive jam that would never happen with a right-handed shooter?

I've heard and seen guns blow up before but rarely with such huge damage... I also highly discount the original post as the pic shown shows damage to the thumb and index and second finger look beyond what can be "sewed back on". You can't sew back something that is blown to bits like that thumb. Anyway.

 

[ViviTheMage]

this happened to you?!

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: GeneValgene
oh SNAP

that is disgusting

 

[OrganizedChaos]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
the pics compute in my opinion... there are two major incisions in the hand and 2 major pieces of crap that flew off?

The hand is too mangled for what happened to the gun, the index finger and thumb are competely gone, the middle finger is hanging on apparently by some bit of skin or tendon. The hand is also halfway severed from the wrist(or so it appears hard to tell cuz the pic is small and only one angle)

The trauma looks to be either explosive or some sort of mangling/crush injury, maybe catching a hand in a harvester combine...but not a glock 'blowing' up

EDIT: I dont think it's explosive because of no apparent burning on the skin, probably some mangling/sheer trauma

well, the piece would cut right through it all... shopping off the index and slicing through the middle finger and beyond

Hold your hand like you are holding a pistol...maybe it'd make some nasty lacerations but..not in the sort of trauma seen in that picture.

Maybe some ammo went off and jammed up the gun, and when he took the magazine out and started hitting it against the wall to get the rest of the cartridges out, it blew up

you did see the hole blown in the side of the pistol right?

 

[BIGk]

Originally posted by: InlineFour
the glock
the hand

this person is on my contact list and apperantly there was faulty ammo. all the fingers are sewn back together now. it's amazing what doctors can do these days.

that pic made me want to yak everywhere

 

[zimu]

fvking idiots.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
this happened to you?!

Reading FTW.

this person is on my contact list and apperantly there was faulty ammo.

 

[Viper GTS]

OK I see the hole in the side of the gun but that's on the right side of the gun.

Unless I'm severely mistaken that appears to be his LEFT hand.

I too have serious doubts about this.

Viper GTS

 

[Brutuskend]

OMG!!!!!!!!!

 

[Phlargo]

Yeah, I think that Viper and DeathBUA are exactly right - the injury to the hand is more mechanical than explosive... despite its gruesomeness, the hand isn't burned - it's mangled.

 

[Amused]

http://www.policeone.com/policeone/fron...=News&operation=full_newsline&id=81618

Officer Mike Close "was on the firing line, and his gun basically exploded in his hand," Foxworth said. Close's fingers were bruised, and some metal lodged in his skin. He was treated at a hospital and released.

Three days later, the same thing happened to Officer Florin Pirv, who was not injured.

The training staff withdrew the practice ammunition, but further study revealed more serious problems.

A records check also showed a similar event occurred in 1997.

"An examination of the two guns revealed rupturing of the barrel, bulging of the slide, and the destruction of the trigger bag, magazine release mechanism, magazine and receiver," the chief's memo said.

In each case, the bullet failed to feed into the weapon's barrel, and the primer ignited, causing an explosion that blew out the magazine seated into the weapon, police said.

I call shens on the second pic in the OP.

 

[SupaDupaCheez]

I didn't read the whole thread but:

If this happened, wouldn't the gun have been confiscated by police as part of whatever investigation would have ensued? Would there be an investigation?

If there wasn't an investigation, why is the gun so clean? I would think it would have been covered in whatever parts are missing from the hand (blood at the very least). Why the hell would somebody CLEAN that gun to take a picture, much less keep the damn thing.

I seriously doubt that gun caused that damage.

If i'm not mistaken, I am almost positive I have seen the picture of the hand on one of those crazy picture sites (rotten.com maybe?). I'm not going to those sites to find it though.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: Colt45

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Damage to the weapon does not fit the damage to the hand. The magazine seems to have come apart, yet the handle, slide and barrel are still intact. I call BS.

yeah that was my thoughts too

mine too. to to cause that much damage the gun would have to be more exploded. it almost looks like the had had a grenade go off in it.

 

[MBrown]

Jeesh.

 

[biggestmuff]

This thread proves the general populace's ignorance of firearms.

The only way that injury could've occured is if the hand was balled into a fist and placed in front of the muzzle.

Most of the Glocks that KB (kaboom, explode) have done so due to errors in the ammo or negligence of the operator; double loads (home reloads, rarely from the factory), faulty brass (no inspection prior to reloading, defective wall), wrong ammo (Super .45 in a .45 or .357 SIG in a .40).

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
This thread proves the general populace's ignorance of firearms.

The only way that injury could've occured is if the hand was balled into a fist and placed in front of the muzzle.

Most of the Glocks that KB (kaboom, explode) have done so due to errors in the ammo or negligence of the operator; double loads (home reloads, rarely from the factory), faulty brass (no inspection prior to reloading, defective wall), wrong ammo (Super .45 in a .45 or .357 SIG in a .40).

Thank you for that, and proof of that would be these pics(warning NSFW and again graphic)

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Although in those picture healing has begun, but it gives you the idea.

 

[Hammerhead]

GOod Luck on the recovery!