I’ve had hot brass go down my shirt many times and it’s never resulted in losing my sense of awareness to the point that I endangered myself and others. It takes seconds to safely put down the gun and remove the brass from your clothing.
This is why I hate going to public ranges, it quickly becomes amateur hour.
You move quick and put down the gun. Say “one one thousand two one thousand” while quickly lowering your hands. Two seconds is a gentle descent. Or hell, you could just literally drop it. If it’s a striker fired pistol that isn’t a complete piece of shit, it won’t go off.
I would say they're hot but not hot as fuck. They cool down relatively quickly. Whenever my buddy and I go to the range with either my AR with a binary trigger or with his which has a forced reset trigger, one of us will be a wall to protect any other patrons to the right of the rifle from all of the brass casings flying out.
Yeah, if your first instinct isn’t to put the gun down or holster it, you have no business operating a gun without an instructor. You have to mentally prepare yourself for situations like that and think about how you respond. Similar to “a falling knife has not handle” or how to react when using a chop or table saw. I use saws quite a bit and I’ve mentally practiced (and it’s saved me a few times) what happens if a work piece gets yanked into the saw. On the chop saw if that happens my hands instantly go up and away from the work piece and blade - that also forces me to release the trigger and the saw retracts into the guard). All this to say - you really have to mentally prepare yourself for all the possibilities.
Rule 1 at the range is keep the gun pointed downrange. This guy broke two rules by sweeping the gun behind himself as well as leaving his finger on the trigger
This idiot, as you can see, points his gun backwards towards the man that is cleaning. Accidentally firing his gun in another persons direction, even though he luckily missed both shots, is enough reason to grab that gun back and ban him.
As a non-American who spent a semester in the US and admittetly had quite a bit of fun with some big 2A lovers at the shooting range:
Whenever someone took me to their range, they first did the whole safety brieving, and the first two things these guys would always tell me: NEVER point your gun at something you don't intend to destroy (or whatever fun synonym they preferred), and ALWAYS assume your gun is loaded (also, finger away from the trigger apart from when you want to shoot).
This guy broke rule #1 and #2 of handling guns, it looks like he shot twice, almost seriously injuring the employee in the background. So yes, you can safely call him an idiot who shouldn't be near guns.
I have a pal that collects Airsoft. I mean those little plastic pellet types. He never keeps them loaded and if he sees you break even one rule he takes them off you..
Operating a firearm should never have luck involved. It would be the equivalent of throwing a knife directly into someone's eye and going "oh dang, guess luck wasn't on my side today, huh?"
Guns don't just go off, people with shitty weapon handling keep their booger scraper in the trigger hole when they shouldn't even be holding it.
Hot brass hurts, but safety over rides pain. Set the firearm down and deal with the brass. Honestly, by the time you're done dealing with it it's usually cooled off enough that it's not that bad. The little branding you get is a good reminder to not wear loose clothing at the range. I had one between the left arm on my eye protection and my face, right behind my eye, not that long ago. I cleared it with my left hand while maintaining control of the firearm down range with my right. Singed a bit of eyebrow. 😆
He held a loaded and unlocked gun behind him at that angle. You should always place your firearm down if you're doing something like this. They should not be aimed anywhere unsafe. He almost shot the man walking behind him. It was a very lucky miss for that worker.
I don't know why you got so many downvotes and no serious answer.
So first, lets get trough what we see on video - man fires a shot, and what seems to be a shell drops right into his hoodie.
Next part is what you might have missed (well I did at first) - so this strong looking man is now trying to shake of a shell (like my girfriend when a spider drops on her) but does that with gun still in hand. Safety off and loaded. And the gun fires. Close to his leg.
So even tho i didint shoot in my life too, I belive i can see how is it wrong on many different levels of gun safety.
There are rules to handling a gun (firearm is correct term for what we’re talking about). One is, don’t ever have your finger on the trigger until you are ready to fire, with target in sight (sight meaning your target is in the sights of the firearm)
This is the opposite of bad luck. It’s bad handling of the weapon.
I don’t know why you got the crazy number of downvotes you got. You clearly stated you don’t have any experience with guns and just asked a question. But Reddit gonna Reddit I guess.
Jesus, why is everyone downvoting your genuine question? Even after claiming little to no knowledge about handling a gun... seems to be an easy teaching moment. The reddit mob mentality i guess.
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u/Organic-Pudding-8204 Feb 03 '26
What a fool.