wow
very freak accident
fortunately - without a chamber to contain and direct the pressure and load it would be mostly a large firecracker
I remember years ago reading about a photographer for an outdoor magazine who unloaded a rifle and dropped the rounds (small cal if I remember right) into the pocket of his down coat before going in a diner. as he sat on a stool eating his lunch there was a loud bang and a cloud of feathers - turned out a round had contacted across a spare camera battery's terminals and cooked off - the brass split but the bullet had no velocity
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