High frame-rate footage of vintage guns malfunctioning

[Wanderfound]

@Snork

Next time a junkie looking for fix money breaks into your house, try fighting him off with a toaster.

Why isn't Silicon Valley trying to fix the gun problem?

While we’re offering anecdotes in place of evidence: I was the subject of a “home invasion” once. I stood up and told him to get the fuck out of my apartment, and he did. Burglar who was expecting an unoccupied flat, no weapons involved on either side. I’m about 5’6", BTW. And, at the time, I was wearing nothing but boxer shorts (I was resting in bed, off work with a cold).

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Why isn't Silicon Valley trying to fix the gun problem?

Not quite that upscale, but for another personal anecdote: When I was 19, I lived in a rotting slum in one of the dodgiest bits of Sydney. There were half a dozen of us living there; we were all heavy methamphetamine users, and half of the household were into heroin. Amongst the many other failings of the house, the front door was impossible to properly secure. One day, as the household was gathered in the lounge room eating cheese and crackers, a random dude kicked his way through the front d…