‘Do not store guns in your oven’: Loaded gun stored in oven fires multiple rounds after getting overheated

Good move. The last thing you want to do is post a half-baked pun.

Something about packing heat, too.

The range was hot at the time so firing should have been expected?

A quick image search finds this warning label on ammunition saying to store it in a cool, dry place.

No one ever thought of making such a warning because nobody thought anyone would be this stupid!

pffftt guns can never be the problem, we need to add the safety label to the ovens!

This should not have made me laugh out loud, but it did!

Only a good oven with a gun!

My microwave has guns too.

I do not understand ever storing anything in the oven, its a cooking tool not a storage tool.

I will agree if you have a gas stove that checking the pilot light is a good idea, but those are becoming less common as we are discovering just how bad they are for your health - that, and induction is amazing for anything that doesn't require an open flame (and that's what bbqs are for!).

Because normal people don't put random shit in their oven to check for?

Why would you expect anything to be in the oven? Maybe the cast iron is the exception but only because it can take the heat

I'm reminded of a joke from Burn Notice where Michael has kept a folder of critically important blackmail files in his mother's oven for several seasons. He just casually points out she never actually cooks anything herself.

Thinking that's a good idea, and remembering to do it, are two different things.

Also there could be a cat in the oven, or in America, a cat with a gun.

Because I know that I didn't put any random things in there. I'm not insane.

The need to adjust oven racks should make checking the oven a thing.

On this episode of "Great American Bake-Off"

Nice

Hot bullets get your hot bullets!

I wonder if there was a round in the chamber, and it was able to cycle.

Because of the lack of barrel. But in this case the gun was loaded so it should come out full force

So I initially went to the page to see if that was confirmed or busted because I couldn't remember (I do recall them having difficulty just keeping bullets in the oven) and I ended up finding this instead:

I don't remember that episode at all!

Pretty sure I learnt this one from a Chip n Dale cartoon when I was about six.

He can 3D print or just but a new frame. The metal parts will be fine.

Maybe he meant he could fix the oven. Which he could ... by moving.

What is this scenario referring to? Is there another article with actual details, or...?

Possible with a semi auto, since the chamber and barrel would transmit heat better to a chambered round then the magazine and all the safety parts don't really assume cook off. Yeah a round fires, slide racks back and loads next round, next round cooks off, over and over until all rounds are the same temp.

Spooky stuff.

Commenters are getting this backwards. If there was a round in the chamber it would be the last to go off, not the first. Whereas the rest of the rounds are directly exposed to the heat, the chambered round has a thick metal barrel around it protecting it from that heat.

The 'article' or accompanying video didn't specify unfortunately. I guess it is possible the hottest round would be the one chambered and cooks off, engaging the semi auto chambering mechanism loading the next round and repeat.

This is the part that's boggling my mind.

1. Stored guns in an oven.
2. Stored guns loaded.

But not content to stop there:

3. Stored loaded guns, inside an oven.

A primary school child took a gun to school, so apparently there needs to be a manual (and, well, training?) as a mandatory thing.

Being sheltered through life?

Well hey don't blame me when your pizza stones overheat and murder your whole family while they're standing in the kitchen!

An airbnb I stayed at stored a gray plastic food tray in the oven. My friend understandably thought it was a cooking sheet. Very sad cookies that night.

They generally are.
Problem is there is a tiny little overlap in the middle of that Venn diagram, and that tiny overlap seems to be responsible for a great deal of problems.

Well, the chief of police in my city did this (accidental discharge of gun in the oven) once, so make of that what you will. He did have the integrity to discipline himself, per department policy.

Unloaded guns are useless if you need one.