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Charlie Stross Feb 10, 2023

Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan

Leandro Mathias de Novaes’ gun went off due to magnetic field in the MRI scanning room:

It's a superconducting electromagnet, mate. The metal detectors on the door aren't there for your explodey penis substitute, they're there because ferrous metals go ZOOOOM if they get too close to the high-Tesla field!

It's like the dipshit ignored the pre-MRI fact sheet/briefing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-lawyer-death-mri-gun-b2279514.html

Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan in Brazil

Leandro Mathias de Novaes’ gun went off due to magnetic field in the MRI scanning room

The Independent

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Rob Cornelius Feb 10, 2023

@cstross

I read this. The last time I had an MRI I had to go through metal detectors, turn out my pockets in front of the technician, sign a bit of paper etc. before they let me in the room with the big supercooled magnet.

I always wonder what USAians who wander around in public armed to the teeth are afraid of. Your Glock and AR-15 won't protect you from the Gubermint. They can put a warhead on your forehead if they really, really want to.

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JdeBP

@rob_cornelius @cstross

This person was not a norteamericano, though. This was in São Paulo, Brazil.

And Brazilian news reports pointed out that this was concealed carry and he did indeed sign a form.

#FirearmsSafety

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V.K. Farfalle 🦋 (He/Him)Feb 11, 2023

@JdeBP @rob_cornelius @cstross

I wish he'd lived to see his firearms permit and legal credentials revoked for whatever the Brazilian equivalent of criminal reckless endangerment is.

His death is too easy for anti-gun people to gravedance and blame on his politics or the gun itself. And it's too easy for pro-gun people to write this off as an "unfortunate accident" since there's nobody to hold accountable for the series of criminally stupid decisions that could have been so much worse.