>> At one point, an officer walked into an MRI room, past a sign warning that metal was prohibited inside, with his rifle “dangling… in his right hand, with an unsecured strap,” the lawsuit said. The MRI machine’s magnetic force then allegedly sucked his rifle across the room, pinning it against the machine.
I'd consider it lucky that the rifle didn't discharge. All the safety systems in the world cannot be expected to protect against a random magnetic field doing who knowns what with the internals of a gun while it flies across the room. But this sort of unforeseen situation is why you never walk around with a finger on the trigger.
He's also lucky the chimney for the boiled helium was working properly. Otherwise he (and perhaps some of his comrades) would be dead from asphyxiation.
The quenching process isn't exactly something they practice.
Unless you are in a closed environment, like a balloon, helium will disapate. Importantly, helium disipates upwards. You pass out, falling to the floor where the incoming air is, but likely will survive.
I don't think Mythbusters had the budget to deal with a possible result of "bullet gets sucked directly into the insanely expensive machinery, destroying it"
I suspect "MRI-strength electromagnet" falls into a different budget category than "medical grade and certified imaging system", including but not limited to "MRI removed from hospital and junked because it's no longer maintained / useful / accurate enough". They are pretty resourceful
I'd consider it lucky that the rifle didn't discharge. All the safety systems in the world cannot be expected to protect against a random magnetic field doing who knowns what with the internals of a gun while it flies across the room. But this sort of unforeseen situation is why you never walk around with a finger on the trigger.