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Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet

posted by martyb on Friday July 31 2020, @01:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the ruh-roh! dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:

Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet:

In an experiment you should never, ever try at home, the experimenters at YouTube's DemolitionRanch found that if you were strong enough to bend the barrel of a rifle back on itself (a clever maneuver Bugs Bunny often pulled on Elmer Fudd) the bullet would actually follow the curved path.

[...] For DemolitionRanch's latest firearms experiment, it goes one step beyond what The Mythbusters tested[*] and bent the barrel of an automatic rifle almost 180 degrees backward so that it points back at someone unfortunate enough to be holding the weapon. [...] They built a remote rig to safely test what would happen.

[...] when the rifle was fired remotely, the bullet exited the barrel at its business end

[*] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xfYfgpjtws

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  • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday August 01 2020, @08:14PM (1 child)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 01 2020, @08:14PM (#1029998) Journal

    I'm not a Russian speaker, so I humbly take corrections of my ignorance. I've heard/seen different variations in English and just doing my best to reverse - how should it be/how does it read better?

    Thanks!

    --
    В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @06:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @06:22AM (#1030179)

    AC you replied to here.

    I was curious, so I translated it.

    I guess it can be amusing either way. I was just thinking "No truth in a <newspaper called truth>, no news in a <newspaper called news>" might have been what you meant, rather than "no news in a <newspaper called truth>, no truth in a <newspaper called news>"

    But it's your sig not mine. And well done.

    I just thought it interesting enough to comment.

    It's definitely amusing, but I am easily amused. :)