Officers .45 vs an MRI machine.

[Norm357]

Click for an interesting article.

[hitnrun]

Yikes! That would scare the SH!T outta me!

[Taz_bb2]

GI tech to MRI...STAT...:D

[jmac_52]

Okay, I'll bite. How did the grip safety become deactivated? Magnetism? Aluminum (Non-magnetic material) is used on a lot of the moving parts in newer pistols. I can go for the magnetism about the firing pin block, I guess. That would explain why there was not a live round chambered, since the thumb safety was engaged.

I'm not the official expert here, but I'm confused as to how pistol fired if the grip safety wasn't depressed. Is the pistol capable of firing without the grip safety? :confused:

And, it's a 1911! Not a 1991. :D

[Norm357]

Okay, I'll bite. How did the grip safety become deactivated? Magnetism? Aluminum (Non-magnetic material) is used on a lot of the moving parts in newer pistols. I can go for the magnetism about the firing pin block, I guess. That would explain why there was not a live round chambered, since the thumb safety was engaged.

I'm not the official expert here, but I'm confused as to how pistol fired if the grip safety wasn't depressed. Is the pistol capable of firing without the grip safety? :confused:

And, it's a 1911! Not a 1991. :D

No, it's a Colt 1991, not a 1911.

None of the safetys engaged, maganetic force pulled the firing pin forward with enough force to discharge the round.

[Darin]

I dunno....seems like common sense to NOT bring a gun into a MAGENTIC resonance imaging device.

Seems like the MAGENTIC part of it would deter me from carrying inside the machine.

[mxwelch]

I dunno....seems like common sense to NOT bring a gun into a MAGENTIC resonance imaging device.

Seems like the MAGENTIC part of it would deter me from carrying inside the machine.

+1...

[jmac_52]

No, it's a Colt 1991, not a 1911.

None of the safetys engaged, maganetic force pulled the firing pin forward with enough force to discharge the round.

My bad. I should have clicked the enlarged view to see the model.

[ObMax1212]

At the hospital I work at someone in the housekeeping department brought one fo those giant floor buffers into the MRI room. The magnet was turned on and needless to say, that person is no longer employed. That machine sucked the cleaner right into it and caused lots of money in repairs.

[Norm357]

At the hospital I work at someone in the housekeeping department brought one fo those giant floor buffers into the MRI room. The magnet was turned on and needless to say, that person is no longer employed. That machine sucked the cleaner right into it and caused lots of money in repairs.

I would have paid good money to see that. :D

[Ironhead]

Many people don't understand the danger of the MRI magnet. The magnet is almost always "ON"

In this case they said ...

The decision was then made to power down the magnet to remove the gun

This decision probably was agonized over. I spoke to an MRI technician that said that once the magnet is off - it can cost upwards of 50,000 to restart it. It isn't as easy as throwing a switch then turning it back on.

I heard of a tech that was pinned to the magnet in the area of his arm. His arm was against the magnet and a cordless drill was pinning his arm to the magnet. I was told that if that happens, your body will not stop the movement of the metal towards the magnet. The metal will eventually work itself through your body and reach the magnet.

I was told that people with new tattoos that get MRI's will often experience a burning feeling from the iron in the ink used to make the tattoo. Welders and metal workers that might have microscopic bits of metal in their eyes can have their vision ruined when the metal moves as it is drawn toward the magnet.

These things are nothing to mess around with.

[shugs]

Wasnt that long ago someone brought an oxygen tank into an MRI room and killed the patient. The hospital bought the farm on that one.

[RT302]

I would have paid good money to see that. :D

+1 The look on his face must have truly been priceless:D

[Hop]

Many people don't understand the danger of the MRI magnet. The magnet is almost always "ON"

I'll remember to remove my "piercing" before my next MRI:D That could be painful and rather embarrassing to explain;)




Why no, um… it’s the magnet… really!

[SPM]

I'll remember to remove my "piercing" before my next MRI That could be painful and rather embarrassing to explain;)




Why no, um… it’s the magnet… really!

I take in custodys to get MRIs done somewhat often. I never enter the room, but I am in full duty gear (belt, badge, etc). I am always nervous around that...

Once I joked about taking a birdshot GSW victim/suspect into the MRI to remove all of the pellets. Since he was a gang member and PROBABLY put himself in the line of fire (not an innocent victim) it was pretty funny... but the nurse then reminded me that the magnet is in a ring and it moves/is all around the individual. So, as nice as it would be to think the pelets would all come out of the same holes they entered... in fact they would shred him from the inside out as they flew, at high velocity, towards the magnet. If his spine, brain, whatever was in the way... it wouldn't detour.

So, yea, it might just tear your piercing OUT, but then again it might take it THROUGH you.

:(

-SPM