How safe is your stored ammo ??

[clublights]

Turns out...


pretty darn safe even for the firefighters having to save your house

[ChunkyMonkey]

Good to know. Thx for the post.

[MATT02GT]

Thats pretty interesting for sure

[buffalobo]

Will be showing this to the wife. Having been in the fire protection business in the past she has always been pretty fearful of storing any bulk ammo in the house outside the safes. Good to know that we should be able to contain and minimize the danger without having to spend boatloads of money.

[Flatline]

Yeah, without a barrel there is almost nothing gained in velocity. In addition to what is showed in the video the cases themselves will also move, further removing potency from the projectile or case. My personal concern is that if I hear ammo going off from outside its gonna be hot as hell inside(ammo cooks off at something like 300 degrees F). And some idiot may have left ammo in a gun's chamber, which would be deadly if it gets cooked off by a fire.

This plus the fact that if a department policy is that ammo + fire = stay outside, then nobody will go inside regardless.

[Bailey Guns]

There are far worse dangers to firefighters in a home fire than ammunition. 28k rounds of ammo burned...brought a tear to my eye.

BTW: The coolest thing is this video was the Constellation in the background while doing the drop test.

[liberty19]

Great info. Thanks for sharing.

[Byte Stryke]

There are far worse dangers to firefighters in a home fire than ammunition.

ever seen what happens to a gallon of bleach at 300f ?
Aerosol cans
stuff people store is insane

[RonMexico]

Cool video, thanks for posting

[Great-Kazoo]

Yeah, without a barrel there is almost nothing gained in velocity. In addition to what is showed in the video the cases themselves will also move, further removing potency from the projectile or case. My personal concern is that if I hear ammo going off from outside its gonna be hot as hell inside(ammo cooks off at something like 300 degrees F). And some idiot may have left ammo in a gun's chamber, which would be deadly if it gets cooked off by a fire.

This plus the fact that if a department policy is that ammo + fire = stay outside, then nobody will go inside regardless.

I must be an Idiot seeing how any firearm i have available IS LOADED. What's the point of having an accessible gun IF it's Not Loaded. For all the hand wringers on line, NO we do Not have Any Children.