{"id":18255,"date":"2021-04-30T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T22:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/30\/earth-shattering-ka-boom-how-and-why-guns-explode\/"},"modified":"2021-04-30T17:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T22:15:53","slug":"earth-shattering-ka-boom-how-and-why-guns-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/30\/earth-shattering-ka-boom-how-and-why-guns-explode\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth-Shattering ka-Boom! How (and Why) Guns Explode"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/71OGayW7CnI?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday Scott at Kentucky Ballistics posted a very sobering video detailing his Serbu RN-50 quite literally exploding in his face. A lot of people have asked if I have seen it, and I figured this is a good opportunity to discuss the different ways in which guns can explode, and what some manufacturers have historically done to fail-safe their designs.<\/p>\n<p>While not nearly as cool as Scott&#8217;s &#8220;Just Put a Thumb in it&#8221; shirts, I do have a pretty nice lightweight Carhartt shirt now available in the Forgotten Weapons merch store:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s original video on the event:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1449kJKxlMQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/1449kJKxlMQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home Just yesterday Scott at Kentucky Ballistics posted a very sobering video detailing his Serbu RN-50 quite literally exploding in his face. A lot of people have asked if I have seen it, and I figured this is a good opportunity to discuss the different ways in which guns can explode, and what some&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/30\/earth-shattering-ka-boom-how-and-why-guns-explode\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earth-Shattering ka-Boom! How (and Why) Guns Explode<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}