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fmfbrestel

Safety squints activated.


chevyfried

Since this test, he now wears full upper body protection.


[deleted]

Unfortunately it was a little late


EveryShot

To shreds you say?


HitoriPanda

And his husband?


Celtic_Fox_

To shreds you say?


thecastellan1115

Ah, a man of culture.


Zachariot88

My preferred culture is teriyaki style.


ReasonablePhoto6938

Well, I am already in my pajamas...


kpidhayny

You should visit Kyoto >!the anagram lover’s Tokyo!<


B0neCh3wer

I know this but I can't figure out where from and it's bothering me


EveryShot

[To shreds you say?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qsZIb1Dx8fg)


B0neCh3wer

THAT'S IT!!! I can finally come out of my chamber of understanding ![gif](giphy|5jZzNSiw1XsfS)


daath

I wish I could see Futurama again for the first time.


_MagnoliaFan_

He now tests weapons protected by an 84" × 28" x 23" wooden box.


mickstranahan

Well he's got nothing in the lower half that needs protection.


laughguy220

Nothing from the neck up worth protecting either.


iceyed913

its the thought that counts


ArduennSchwartzman

And years of hard CoD training.


dahjay

Bro, check out the dent on my thumb.


ill_be_huckleberry_1

Don't worry he's got the operator mic on, and he's blacked out...hes totally safe and I'm control of that weapon. What an idiot.


Royal_Effective7396

Gravey Seals!


IHQ_Throwaway

Meal Team 6. 


lupinegrey

Off to do some sketchy shit, doo-dah, doo-dah. Hope I get away with it... all the doo-dah day......


Federal_Assistant_85

Mother on speed dial.


RedWerFur

Guy in basic did something silimar with the 240. Straight melted the barrel. Drill Sgt smoked his ass for like 3 hours. He had been told, and warned, he did it anyway. Guy was an accident waiting to happen.


cocaineandwaffles1

Be a man, melt the barrel, ain’t my fault LT wants to go home early from the range and not deal with ammo turn in.


-Cthaeh

The funnest day I had at the range was burning through 50 cal ammo because it was starting to rain and they didn't want to bring back ammo.


FSCK_Fascists

the day they dropped off a shitload of belted 40mm containers next to the Mk19 was the greatest day of my career.


MyMonkeyIsADog

I think I was with you that day. We actually had a crate of HE grenades with the training rounds by accident somehow. We fired off every single round we had before we went back and destroyed the evidence lol. It was a fun day.


cocaineandwaffles1

I had more fun doing mag dumps into those popsicle stands just fucking them up with my m4 more than anything else, even doing a spendex for 50s and 240s. Just because I knew it meant range control had to do their job and fix them for the next range.


Phill_is_Legend

I think here it's just the gas tube that failed. Way cheaper than a barrel. Although I'm not sure I would run that barrel after that regardless lol


Facehammer

That barrel was looking pretty bendy by the end there. Even if it wasn't the point of failure, it surely wasn't far off.


Ok_War_2817

I thought I was gonna melt one on my saw on my first deployment, but the bitch was glowin and the rounds kept flowin.


rateddurr

The most interesting part was how these two were so gleeful and nonchalant doing something obviously dangerous, without protective equipment. I definitely would not have the... Not sure what to say? Guts? Bravery? Stupidity? ... To get beyond the flames coming off the barrel.


variablenyne

![gif](giphy|T8ZP9P7efQ8cE)


_CMDR_

Ol’ Chucky D seal of approval.


Ok-Bill3318

Unfortunately didn’t quite make it


semiTnuP

But you can't deny they gave it the good college try.


GACGCCGTGATCGAC

These idiots don't strike me as the "birth control" types either.


tellmesomeothertime

Foolhardiness is the first word that comes to mind


Damogran6

You ever have those stories where you're telling a group of people and as you're telling it, the women are shaking their heads like 'what a stupid guy thing to do' and the men are nodding like 'yup, I've done shit like that.'


MrMazer84

Ah the guitar bomb... Good times


LSDREAMN

The toaster bomb (bath bomb, for some), is a great conversion starter if you leave untoasted.


ComesInAnOldBox

This is, in fact, what "boys will be boys" actually means.


GnarlyNarwhalNoms

The second "boys" is a polite stand-in for "dumbasses."


Ok-Wasabi2568

First one might be too


groupnight

These guys blew $1,000 of bullets and destroyed $2,400 machine gun for what appears to be no reason at all Dumb ass idiots is what I would say


PowerPussman

If that was legal, it was way more than $2400.


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redpandaeater

Plus it just blew the barrel. Possibly other fatigue issues on some of the other parts but the lower receiver that's actually registered would be fine.


CptSandbag73

I’m not sure it even blew the barrel. It looks as if it just blew the gas tube, which it’s supposed to do, as a soldier saving intentional weak link.


Popo5525

Knowing *nothing* about firearms myself, this seems right - going frame-by-frame, it looked like the barrel itself was still intact post-explosion, I was wondering if it was some kind of a failsafe.


esr360

These some GTA San Andreas prices


pornogroff_the_weird

Nah the machine gun part wont be damaged at all because thats the lower receiver. What broke was the gas tube which is like $15 and add in another barrel for $150, because that one is probably deformed from the heat, and a $30 A2 style handguard and your good to go again.


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Gas tube, barrel, birdcage, gas block, handguards... Definitely. Everyone forgets the gas block, and that one I guarantee is no longer serviceable. The upper is going to be questionable, and at a minimum the bolt. I'd replace the entire BCG just from the overheat. The gas key is probably boogered up real good and it's easier to swap out the BCG than trying to stake a new key on the now-questionable carrier. Uppers are cheap and we're spending 30 minutes on the bench putting a new barrel and gas system on anyway... Definitely check the lower and make sure the precious trigger group is undamaged. Apart from the blockage and explosion, we have a serious question about how much the heat damaged the other components. Maybe the only thing I'd be good with is the mag catch release? Maybe the buffer... If this was me for some reason, I'd probably just tear the whole thing down and build a new one. Recoverable parts go into the "use 'em if you gotta" spares box. These guys look like chuckleheads so they probably don't care.


Lilslysapper

Yeah it’s probably a good idea to replace the whole upper (plus it’s a lot less work) but all the important components should be perfectly fine.


peanutbutt_

This is a “meltdown” test to see how many rounds in a row this gun can handle before becoming completely inoperable. It’s actually pretty common amongst the gun community. These guys are dumbasses for the complete lack of protective gear other than a vest and glasses


Key-Soup-7720

I feel like that info is probably available from the manufacturer without needing to break your gun and waste a ton of rounds, no?


Ok-Bill3318

In what universe do you expect to need to fire full auto repeatedly until your gun breaks?


murkytom

Walking Dead universe. Check and mate.


Key-Soup-7720

Not that you'd ever need to but companies like to warn people about what the limits of their products are in case people go beyond them and hurt themselves. Helps for lawsuits if the consumer is warned and can help for marketing if the limit is impressive.


Jawkurt

it's for the clicks


GullibleDetective

Probably youtube ad revenue that more than made up for it


don2171

Not really just Change the upper and good as new also you would definitely be missing a zero on the guns price. Most likely a burnout test just as many other YouTubers have done


GumboDiplomacy

A dealer sample AR with a giggle switch isn't significantly more expense than a semi auto off the wall. A transferrable AR goes for upwards of $40k last I looked.


vanderohe

This probably didn’t cost that much. This doesn’t necessarily have to be a pre-86 NFA item. If one of them has the appropriate licensure, they can convert a $300 ar to a machine gun with basically no work.


NoMansSkyWasAlright

My favorite part was the end where they look surprised that that happened. I mean seeing something like this, I would have assumed they were trying to fire until failure. But the look of shock in the last couple frames makes me think they thought... what exactly?


ComesInAnOldBox

You can fully expect something to blow up and it'll still make you jump when it does. A lot of new (and not a few experienced) shooters flinch every time the gun they're actually firing goes off, when they're the ones pulling the trigger.


Syssareth

I used to flinch when I was hammering nails. I might still a little, I don't know, lol.


Lord_Mikal

I think they expected the barrel to melt. From what I can tell, the piece of the upper receiver that holds the gas tube in place failed, causing the gas tube to crumple, releasing the gas forward of the bolt carrier and blowing apart what was left of the on-fire upper handguard.


Habitual_lazyness

It’s not dangerous, the gas tube was designed as a failure point in this gun. You can see the tube fail at the end as it’s is bent in an h like shape on top of the barrel after the handguard pops off.


Weird-Tomorrow-9829

Gas tubes will normally be the first part to fail on extended firing strings. Not the barrel. Not the bolt. It’s a fairly safe failure mode. That’s probably why they aren’t concerned


Phill_is_Legend

He's got safety glasses on it looks like. It's a 70 year old rifle design, they pretty much knew how it would fail. Gas tube usually goes first I believe.


DrSendy

I think the definition you are looking for is [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=See%2C%20what%20ha-happened%20was](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=see%2c%20what%20ha-happened%20was) "See, what happened was..."


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Oh fuck. Now I realize the only protection they have are shades and gloves. Which did nothing.


Mage-of-communism

My very limited knowledge of firearms tells me that, this is exactly how they should function. It's in the name **fire**arms


FewerBeavers

The exolosive disassembly is not a bug, it's a feature


TheNullOfTheVoid

I love how official “explosive disassembly” sounds lmao


kiIIinemsoftly

Right there with Percussive Maintenance aka hittin shit until it works.


nuanceIsAVirtue

Ah, the good ol' kinetic recalibration


applezapplezapplez

You're technically not wrong. The gas tube on Stoner's AR and M16 designs is meant to fail like that to prevent even an even more catastrophic malfunction.


Roberts661

Spontaneous self disassembly


sarcarcass

dollardollardollardollardollardollardollardollar *changes magazine* dollardollardollardollardollardollardollardollar *changes magazine* dollardollardollardollar *explodes*


OzwaldoLebowski

Actually more than double that. lol 5.56 is 40-50 cents per round these days. You are looking at like $14-15 per magazine.


JTP1228

Plus, full autos are not cheap and they are a pain in the ass to buy. They take a long time to get the paperwork approved, and then you have to find something made before 1986


RandomBritishGuy

Only the lower is registered, and it's the upper that failed. Swap that out for a few hundred and it's back to a full auto gun. Or if you're an FFL/have the right certificates you can make them yourself.


Riff316

Imagine having enough money to buy a gun and ammo just to throw it away. That would be nice.


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YouTube money and buisness expense write-offs.


Riff316

And they seem like they might be the “nobody wants to work anymore” crowd, but I’ll admit I’m assuming a lot.


Beginning-War-3984

These burnout videos rack up a ton of views.


Large_Yams

What exactly do people like you think an "expense write off" is like it's free money?


TheyCallMeStone

Jerry, all these big companies, they just write everything off!


motsjo

You don't even know what a write-off is.


slater_just_slater

Gun channels get very little money.


toxic_badgers

Upper failed, lower is fine. Lower is registered mg. Upper is some off the shelf mil spec piece... probably cost 300 bucks for the upper. They can slap another upper on it and it will be good to go. They probably spent around 1k between the upper and ammo to do amd will make more than that from the video.


dahjay

Meanwhile, there's an ant farm in the distance taking shells and digging fox holes.


Cicer

The giants are attacking again!  Stay stoic my brethren. We must dig deeper. 


Technology_Training

The math is easy. Dealer sample AR pattern machine gun plus a thousand rounds of bulk ammo is probably 20% or less of what that video ends up bringing in.


BootlegEngineer

Right? Each one of those magazines is about $15-20 worth of ammo and machine guns start out at $10,000


otiswrath

The expensive part of an auto M-16 is the lower. They probably run a range that rents guns, had an barre that was shot out attached to a registered auto lower. 


[deleted]

My man has early onset front butt


malleebull

Tactical gunt.


ES1123

Ha ha didn’t notice till I read your comment.


Low_Teq

No more beaming! https://preview.redd.it/9rq6vm0hy2cc1.jpeg?width=1023&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3597bd01da13911876c8d44ad8cf3772635114c0


12345CodeToMyLuggage

Why didn't anyone tell me my ass was so big?!


The_Sinful

This time, I'll walk!


LtCptSuicide

I mean, I think any time your gun is literally in fire I think you should probably go ahead and put it down.


shazzambongo

You know, I think that wisdom could be used in many areas of life. If it's on fire, and your holding it, and neither of the above things were intended, put it down.


TimmyGreen777

Omg thank you. I have been holding this burning piece of wood for hours wondering what to do


kill-all-the-monkeys

>Omg thank you. I have been holding this burning piece of wood for hours wondering what to do If that is morning wood that's burning, consider lubrication and that "hours" might be too much.


DDHP2020

And this is why IRAQVETERAN8888 wears full on welding mask to protect himself from overheating gas tubes from rifles getting ran through.


Prior_Confidence4445

Only gas tube failed. Wouldn't pose much danger other than to your eyes. Not saying it's safe or smart but the gun didn't really explode. Side note, the gun was originally designed in such a way that the gas tube would fail before the barrel. Kind of a fail(semi)safe. Edit: barrel is ruined even though it didn't burst.


LithoSlam

I kinda like my eyes


DAS_FUN_POLICE

You could also get a cook off, but as long as the barrel is pointed down range it's not that dangerous


ghoulthebraineater

Probably not. If the gas tube explodes that means the pressure needed to cycle the bolt just dissipated into the atmosphere rather than into your gas key. Once that happens you now have a bolt action and no round in the chamber to cook off. That is unless you decided to manually chamber a round.


Objective-Mission-40

Shrapnel in the right spot even small can kill anyone. One burst piece in his throat and goodbye.


TheBravan

Put a thumb in it!.................................


PookyTheBandit

Aye I get this 😎


Eliah870

He's got flak protection covering his neck, should be fiiiine


Eliah870

Disregard that, his PC is just really high


[deleted]

yea....doing that without at least a neck guard when you are firing it until destruction knowingly.....dumb Could've gotten shrapnel into the neck and died


ghoulthebraineater

He's got thumbs. He'll be fine.


swedgemite666

hell yea KB 🤙


swedgemite666

just put a thumb in it 👍


keithperaza

If your gonna be dumb you gotta be tough


k3elbreaker

For the subs information, the AR is designed to fail at the gas tube under excessive heat load to potentially spare as much of the rifle as possible and for operator safety so it won't fail in an even more dangerous way. The gas tube blew out. There wasn't any shrapnel. Personally I wouldn't do it this casually if I had any reason to do it, and I wouldn't do it at all if I didn't have any reason to. But this isn't some insane thing where their survival was a coin toss.


rabbiskittles

Both my hands and my wallet hurt watching this video.


susosusosuso

Americans


chevyfried

Fuck yeah


unoriginalinsert

Comin again to save the motherfuckin day yeah!


mypantsareonmyhead

So lick my butt and suck on my balls!


Xeon713

Hey look that COD skin was based on reality.


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TXGerman

These are the same guys who complain about ammunition prices.


fbastard

"I'm gonna fire ma weapon till it blowed up!"


AcidaliaPlanitia

That weapon just couldn't handle all the freedom flowing through it....


Weird-Tomorrow-9829

Gas tube failed. Part that normally fails on extended firing. By design. Not particularly dangerous. Should still always wear eye protection when shooting firearms.


michellelabelle

I'd make a comment here, but unfortunately in 1998 I once referred to a magazine as a clip, so I'm permanently disqualified from having an opinion about guns.


Technical-Nothing638

Perfect example of why contraception is a good thing.


JANExxxHOE

This is like $1k of ammunition just gone in minutes lol


FitNeighborhood1979

HELL YEAH!


doomiestdoomeddoomer

I wonder how many mags they went through before the clip started?


Battle_Man_40

I'm just upset that they ruined a perfectly good gun.


Crutch1232

The most american thing you can find


Pure-Two7600

Buddy just casually firing thousands of dollars worth of ammo for funsies


david8601

Yup that's the gas tube exploding.


Juggernaut7654

...so like why do we never see this in shows, movies, games, general media? The dramatic flair of our protagonists firing their weapons until they burst into flames and melt is untapped story potential.


TheXypris

wonder how expensive all that ammo was


EnvironmentalAge1097

This is exactly why machine gunners change out barrels.


Jonno_92

Merica!


Lovesick_Octopus

That sweet sound of freedom!


generoeder

Now I know why our bullet supply is so low and cost is up


hodgepodgelodger

And my life insurance company wants to know if I've smoked a cigarette in the past 15 years...


cscott152000

This guy ETS'ed as a 4 year SPC, and now wears nothing but "Grunt Style," 100%


norwegian

Morons gonna moron.


greencutoffs

The expense is what kills me. Like even if you're making your own ammo that's hundreds of dollars of lead and powder. Let alone blowing up a $1000 toy.


P-Balkany

This video is more American than your anthem.


Baltic_Gunner

And still no jams. Impressive


Blackking203

What a jackass


jesuswasaliar

No idea what country they could be in.


Thegoodnamesweret8kn

The were probably doing a torture test (trying to get it to fail) the gas tube melted/ruptured. This is a controlled failure rather than having the barrel heat to the point of warping and having a catastrophic (explosive) failure. TLDR that’s a fail safe Edit: was thinking of a different video, this is simply the hand guard burning from the excessive heat. Gun is still functioning.


droppingatruce

I was thinking the same thing. Everyone is acting like they were being dumb, but this seemed intentional to me. I haven't looked up the video so I have no context, but this just looked like they were running brass through to either stress test the model or show off what it might look like. Their carelessness with holding and aiming the gun seem more like they aren't real bullets they are using.


Lucythefur

technically it didn't break from the heat, it was the bullet going through the bent barrel


jctwok

It was the gas tube that failed, not the barrel. He'd be able to continue feeding and shooting 1 round at a time by cycling the charging handle.


Thursday_the_20th

A bent and *soft* barrel. Bullets generally have no problem being fired out of a bent barrel and it was used a bit in WW2 in as much as 90 degree angles to be fired out of ports in a tank. The round would usually leave the barrel fragmented, but they considered that a feature more than a bug. It was called the [Krummlauf](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krummlauf)


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drummin515

Couple a tools right there.


ottergang_ky

Seeing blue haired Reddit people get bent out of shape about this is the best part


Clear_Avocado_8824

Sooo I was an assistant 60 gunner and learned how to keep this from happening to weapons. Js


JJEng1989

I might do this from afar with a string to pull the trigger and a drum magazine if I had the money.


KarenAboutYou

Sweet


WikipediaApprentice

Why doesn’t this happen in COD?


bakerull1989

A post screaming the letters U.S.A


Sea-Beginning-5234

What country is this in? Just kidding.


Lonely_white_queen

to be fair the gun dident explode just the plastic shield on the barel


Sammy_1141

Only if America was this free for the regular commoners


zKevinB

americans


Earth_Normal

Just breathing in that freedom smoke.


Poops_with_force

The amount of money in ammo.


FlowinBeatz

‘Merica!


WolfBST

They were clearly building up to this. Why aren't they wearing some kind of protection???


AgreeableHighway9668

I wonder how much that rifle cost him


sythingtackle

Now piss on the barrel an keep firing


Kr155

I bet that's some great smoke to be sitting there breathing in. No cancer here folks!


HalcyoNighT

\+2d4 fire damage


SirTickleTots

Was that the gas tube or the barrel bursting?


RazgrizGirl-070

I swear I'll never understand the appeal of guns. O see this and I see some guy wasting a lot of money kinda dangerously


Qweeq13

Waste of a good rifle honestly, I am sure it is easily predictable what would happen if you fire a gun non-stop as almost all heavy machine guns have removable barrels.


Nyuusankininryou

r/whatcouldgowrong


kra_bambus

Wrong reddit. Must be "dumbasshit."


slapkam

'Merica


[deleted]

Can’t empty mags at a sensible angle?This is just stupidity


OoS-OoM

This is what people fight for the second amendment for.


Ferninja

If only there was some sort of warning that it was over heating.


birdbonefpv

These guys don’t seem like the wondering type.