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fastforty · November 25, 2008, 11:32 PM

If the gun falls off of the nightstand there is a slight possibility of one of the caps managing to knock itself against something on the way down (something thin, like the exposed angle iron bedframe that sticks out a little when the box spring isn't pushed up against it). The discharge wouldn't go through the barrel, but rather straight out of the cylinder (one of the chambers that isn't aligned with the barrel at the moment). Certainly velocity would be somewhat less then pumping one down the barrel but I sure wouldn't want to get busted in the noggin by it.

November 25, 2008, 11:32 PM	#11
fastforty Senior Member Join Date: December 28, 1999 Location: In a kornfield in kalifornia Posts: 1,161	If the gun falls off of the nightstand there is a slight possibility of one of the caps managing to knock itself against something on the way down (something thin, like the exposed angle iron bedframe that sticks out a little when the box spring isn't pushed up against it). The discharge wouldn't go through the barrel, but rather straight out of the cylinder (one of the chambers that isn't aligned with the barrel at the moment). Certainly velocity would be somewhat less then pumping one down the barrel but I sure wouldn't want to get busted in the noggin by it.