Loaded gun in a house-fire: self-discharge?

[Decoligny]

Makes you wonder what will happen with all the boxed ammo, probably sound something like loud popcorn

Having experimented as most teenagers have, I threw ammo into a campfire. The result is simple, the powder goes off and the casing usually splits at its weakest point. This sometimes results in tiny pieces of brass shrapnel that do not have much energy behind them. Probably more likely to get burned from the embers being cast about by the tiny uncontained explosions.

[Rekrab]

Mythbusters always have such great taste in firearms.

Too bad they abused that poor Ruger.

[CHS]

Too bad they abused that poor Ruger.

If you're gonna put a gun in the oven to test a cook-off, I'd WANT you to use a Ruger

Any other gun I'd be afraid of structural failures due to the heat. hehe.

[Cokebottle]

Until the holster melts, and the gun falls to the floor pointing towards a wall that a bullet could pass through and possibly kill one of the firemen responding to the blaze.

Leather

[Cokebottle]

If you're gonna put a gun in the oven to test a cook-off, I'd WANT you to use a Ruger

Any other gun I'd be afraid of structural failures due to the heat. hehe.

I dunno... I get concerned about my wife's LCR on a hot day

[beyaaah]

Yep, ammo in structure/vehicle fires just sounds like a string of black cats going off.

Makes me tear up every time i think of that good ammo going to waste

[Ground Loop]

Very cool Mythbusters clip! As usual, it leaves me with questions they could have answered, but didn't..

The penetration was certainly reduced. A side-by-side would have been interesting.

The pattern was also pretty fragmented, but possibly from the oven glass?

They had that nice remote thermometer but never stated the temperature in the oven at ignition.

[Friar_Tuck]

I wonder why they didnt use a Glock in the oven DOH!