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A woman went to get an MRI last summer and left with a gunshot wound to her rear end, according to a new FDA report.
The woman went to her appointment concealed carrying a firearm. After the normal pre-screening, she entered the machine, still carrying the gun.
Unintentional Gunfire In MRI
According to the FDA report filed on the incident, the magnet in the machine attracted the gun’s metal.
While she was in the MRI machine, her gun fired and shot her in the right buttock. A physician on-site “described the entry and exit holes as very small and superficial, only penetrating subcutaneous tissue.”
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The staff working the MRI rushed her to a hospital, where she underwent treatment.
The woman is now “healing well” according to the report.
GE Healthcare performed an investigation after the incident.
Pre-MRI Screening Missed the Gun
According to the MRI staff, the pre-screening specifically asks about weapons. The questionnaire even asked the woman if she was carrying any guns.
The GEHC investigation reported that the woman answered no to all of the questions in the screening.
A safety manual from GEHC warns that entering the MRI room with “ferrous” or forbidden objects is highly risky.
The FDA Report and news coverage do not share the location of the incident. Not every state prohibits concealed carrying in medical facilities, and hospitals are often required to post “gun-free zone” signs if they don’t allow firearms.
Medical Facilities and Guns
A study from the National Library of Medicine encourages confiscating weapons in hospitals and other medical facilities.
“Weapons are commonly encountered by healthcare providers, especially in a hospital environment,” the study claimed.
READ MORE: Homeowner Protected By Stand Your Ground After Neighborhood Shootout
Screening programs, such as the one in the MRI incident, have been effective in lowering the amount of weapons found in hospitals, according to the study.
Just because you have a screening though, doesn’t mean the patient will disclose that they concealed carry.
Who do you blame for the incident? The patient, the staff, both?
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So nothing about the firearm type or make?! What an idiotic piece of journalism. Once again, second hand molested untrue news.
The height of STUPIDITY!! The patient should never be allowed to carry any firearm!
Seriously? ALL those who carry are responsible for the gun, period. If you can’t be responsible, DON’T carry.
Absolutely no metal should be taken into an MRI machine. This story sounds fantastic? Maybe fishy?
Both. As a person who has become accustomed to ignoring NO CCW signs in Missouri because there are no negative consequences in doing so, it seems important that medical professionals explain exactly why there is one at a facility with an MRI.
Let’s see…. she went into a medical facility to have an exam done where she could possibly need to disrobe (not mentioned in the article). She LIED during the pre-screening about having a gun on her person. Whether she had to change into a gown or keep on her clothes, she knew she was getting into A GIANT MAGNET with a STEEL GUN on her person. SHE is unequivocally, absolutely 100% at fault here. It’s too bad the bullet didn’t remove her stupidity from the gene pool….
I blame the woman. Although, if no one explained why you should not have guns or any other metal objects, it could be misconstrued by many to be an instance where the hospital was being “nosey,” or she feared she could be charged with a crime. Common sense isn’t common. That doesn’t mean a person loses their 2A right.
I blame the woman. Although, if no one explained why you should not have guns or any other metal objects, it could be misconstrued by many to be an instance where the hospital was being “nosey,” or she feared she could be charged with a crime. Com.on sense isn’t common.
Where are all the former comments?
I concealed carry everywhere, I would not ever even contemplate remaining armed during an MRI, that is just dumb.
While attending my second MRI appointment, I figured I would use the knowledge from previous appointment to avoid having to wear those awkward hospital gowns. I arrived wearing PJ bottoms and a PJ top and shoes. The MRI screener was impressed and in the tube I went without having to change clothes. As soon as the operator turned on the intense electromagnet, my legs spread and both of my feet were stuck to the wall of the tube. He immediately shut the machine down and we both discovered there was ferrous metal in the soles of my shoes. We had a good laugh and continued the scan without my kicks.
Truly a dumbass.
She deserved to get shot in the ass for being so stupid. This is the kind of crap that gives gun owners a bad name.🙄
100% the patient’s fault. This isn’t the first time a gun has fired in an MRI suite, btw. It’s perhaps one of the only situations where a gun can truly fire “on its own” (ignoring that the idiot took it into the MRI suite herself).
That sign outside that reads, “The magnet is always ON!” isn’t a joke. It’s ALWAYS on and it’ll pull a gun right out of your hand if you’re near the bore. Flux densities of 1.5 to 3 tesla are no joke.
Hopefully the black woman was arrested but I doubt it because she has her black privilege
The majority of the blame here rest squarely on the perforated posterior of the woman who ignorantly persisted in keeping her firearm on her person while undergoing an MRI. Anyone familiar with MAGNETIC Resonance Imaging machines understands the danger of bringing anything composed of a ferrous metal (i.e. alloys of steel, or other forms of iron) near a machine that generates such powerful magnetic fields. For those who are not familiar… maybe trust the various verbal, printed, and signposted warnings in such a facility are there for a reason.
A smaller amount of blame rests on the facility staff for not verifying that the patient had nothing magneto-resonant on her person. Any time you deal with people, you have to assume a certain level of igorance / stubnornness. A simple metal detecting wand passed over the patient before being allowed inside the MRI room would have prevented the situation…. although it certainly would have created another situation. All the MRI facilities I’ve ever had experience with have made such preventative wanding standard practice. Sheesh!
She must have had a cartridge in the chamber. If not this raises the specter that a powerful enough EMP could set off all ammunition and munitions.
What a dumbass. They make it very clear how strong those magnets are, and how dangerous it can be to have any metal in or on you. I tech was killed just a year or two ago when the machine was accidentally turned on and it caused a gurney to smash into him pinning him between it and the machine. FAFO.
The bullet probably damaged the MRI machine and I hope she is held Liable.
Every MRI that I ever had, I was required to wear a hospital gown.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
MRI’s are a pain the ass…..(groan)
Total B S. “GUNS” … Don’t just “Fire” themselves ! Jeez the STUPID in our country. 😡🤬🤬🫵
She’s an idiot
There should be some charge for that stupidity. I’m all for self protection, but she endangered others due to lack of that third brain cell.
So how does she end up with a gun even after disrobing and putting on a hospital gown? And supposing the story is true, why didn’t the MRI magnetics totally yank the gun and not just the trigger? Something ain’t right with this story.
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. I got an MRI a couple months ago and had to change into a full hospital gown and some hospital shorts before I even walked in the room where the machine was. How in the world was this person allowed to be fully dressed for an MRI? And the hospital has signs posted against weapons so even a concealed carry permit holder, like me, cannot legally carry in the hospital. All kinds of crap wrong with this story.
I bet she puts metal cookware in the microwave. >}:-D
A few years ago a lawyer in South America was standing in an MRI room during a scan. He had a concealed handgun on his person and when the MRI started it ripped the gun off of him and discharged when it hit the machine killing him.
Experience is a harsh teacher, but fools will have no other.
The bullet just missed her brain.
Well c’mon now… I just don’t understand what the big deal is here. Who hasn’t worn a concealed firearm while undergoing an MRI? ROTFLMFAO!!!
This woman was clearly a moron and gives gun owners a bad name.
CLEARLY, it was the MRI machine’s fault. This was no doubt a “hate-crime” perpetrated against the woman because she identified as a victim of a medical condition. It’s only fair that we IMMEDIATELY jail all MRI capable devices across the country. We might as well throw in the CT machines as well. Now that they have a Mangione-like hero to worship and emulate, there’s probably no tests or testing facilities worthy of our trust! We all must call for an executive order from the Lame-Duck, Vegetable in Chief to incarcerate these dangerous devices!!
The dumbass woman should never be allowed to carry a firearm again!!
It wasn’t the MRI screening people’s fault….
How in the world would a magnet cause a gun to fire? Move a safty? Cause trigger to move without a finger on it? This story sounds like a fake! The left likes to talk about 2A problems and makes them up a lot!