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I've seen AI make this mistake, but with a whole cartridge instead of a spent casing.
I guess it depends on how it is trained and what limitations are placed on it. Last year there was a point where Gemini was refusing to draw any firearms at all.
This is the kind of mistake humans make that don't know guns. I've seen so many TV shows and movies over the years where some CSI type pulls a casing from a wall or something.
Probably not AI, probably editor error or intentional because the bullet for a 5.56 is actually pretty small in comparison to the casing. So an M4 (gun pictured) firing a .22 caliber bullet would look unimpressive and not ‘scary’
Extremely unlikely, most casings will eject to side and back. Sure you could have one eject out forward but that would literally be a one in a million photograph
I’ve fired a lot of firearms, and nearly all the automatic/semi-automatics eject the casings up, rearward, and to the left. I’ve never encountered a weapon that ejects casings forward.
Between 3 and 4 according to most sources. 2 to 3 would be slightly overgassed, which is what moat service rifles are to improve reliability when dirty.
I don't know if it was supposed to look scary, but now it just looks ridiculous. I am sure it wasn't intentional and whoever reviewed it before publishing just doesn't know how guns work.
There's a lot of bad information and guesswork in this comment section.
It's neither AI nor photoshop, it is a casing ejected after firing a round. It just so happens to have lined up with the barrel as the photo was taken, in the foreground to the right hand side of the firearm.
This made the rounds on a bunch of firearm subreddits months ago and was determined to be a silly coincidence.
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The weird thing is that it’s a fired casing, not even one with a bullet, which is what I would expect from a mistake. I suspect this may be an intentional joke
The entire cartridge (the brass casing plus the bullet) flying out of the front of the barrel. This is physically impossible. It looks like a graphic designer just Photoshopped a stock image of a full bullet floating in front of the gun, not realizing that the brass part doesn't fly downrange.
People just not understanding that this rifle's so deadly, it shoots the bullet, then a millisecond later says "screw it. I'm not wasting anything!" and shoots the shell.
Are there any guns which fire the bullet then somehow eject the casing down the barrel? Seems impossible but I’m not a gun expert. Usually the casing gets ejected out the side.
Kind of. Caseless weapons(most notably the G11) were prototyped back in 70s and 80s which essentially fired a round that was seated inside a block of propellant and when fired there was no case to eject( hence the term caseless). Another notable example is the gyrojet pistol/carbine which literally fired a small rocket propelled bullet and did not have case ejection. Neither project really worked out and both were abandoned.
A railgun would be another example of something done without a casing. But those are, for the vast most part, fictional at this stage. They're pretty limited to ship-mounted, iirc, at this point.
I seem to recall some weapon that shoots the casing down rather than to the side, but can't remember its designation or even if it was a fever dream.
The P90 ejects downward, the 240 does as well. The 5.7 uppers for ARs also eject casings out of the magazine well(as the magazine on the upper is a P90 mag that runs along the top of the receiver. I think the keltec RDB ejects downward as well.
It's actually a pretty interesting design. The rounds actually sit perpendicular in the magazine and are rotated into place. It's also got a progressive trigger so a light pull fires semi auto and pulling it all of the way back fires full auto.
I do remember more about that gun now. That bit confused the hell out of me. It seems like a whole bunch of extraneous machining that could fail and the magazines made me think it was completely made up (at the time).
Didn't it have a firing stud rather than an actual trigger?
There are some rifles that eject the casing forward (Kel Tec's RFB is an example of one), but I don't know of a design that ejects out of the barrel. For the RFB, it's actually out of the side of the action, but since it's a bullpup rifle and the action is normally near your face, it is pushed into a little chute that spits it out the front away from your face.
I had a casing at a shooting range bounce off the wall and get stuck between my shirt collar and neck. I’m in favor of not ejecting them into people’s faces
So, to start with bullets are generally slightly larger than the bore/barrel they go down. The rifling inside the barrel squeezes down on the bullet as it passes through deforming the bullet and imparting spin. The idea that a case which would be even larger than that, could somehow fit down the barrel, just doesn't work.
If you load a bullet with not enough powder, or just a primer, there will often be just enough pressure to "stick" the bullet inside the barrel. This is called a squib and is very dangerous because if a full power round comes down behind it the bullet with a proper charge will strike the squib/stuck bullet and ruin, if not explode the barrel.
All those things being the case, there is no way a single cartridge could contain enough charge/energy to force the bullet and the casing down the barrel.
Hey, Peter’s autistic cousin here. Also somehow resident firearms expert.
The joke is that it looks the rifle is firing an ejected empty casing down the barrel.
What this looks like instead that for some reason no comment has noticed, is that this picture was just curiously timed. The casing is in fact in front of the rifle, to the side, and not coming down the barrel. The brass deflector on AR platforms can sometimes give it a little bit of forward momentum. Casings tend to spin out sometimes like burning hot bayblades
What is also being clowned on is the hilariously bad grammar in the title of this article.
I know this is a genuine picture because of the stupid yellow tape on the butt stock and blue electrical tape on the magazine. That kind of marking is a deep ritualistic code. That plus the M68 and PEQ tell me this is legit. Not everything is AI. People are getting ridiculously paranoid
This is absolutely not AI. It’s been around the Air Force and discussed ad nauseam.
He is a very real person and this picture has made its way around both memes and training slideshows within our career field.
The tape on the butt stock is usually where our butt numbers are for armory issue/accountability. The blue tape on the mag is usually just an identifier for training mags.
If I remember right, you’re correct and it was just weird timing on an ejected casing.
However, I wouldn’t be surprised if a Public Affairs troop photoshopped something like this. It’s a running joke because they accidentally make fliers for events with Russian MiGs on them and stuff.
This is absolutely not AI. It’s been around the Air Force and discussed ad nauseam.
He is a very real person and this picture has made its way around both memes and training slideshows within our career field.
The tape on the butt stock is usually where our butt numbers are for armory issue/accountability. The blue tape on the mag is usually just an identifier for training mags. Usually these days sim round mags and bolt carrier groups are entirely blue to standout even more.
If I remember right, you’re correct and it was just weird timing on an ejected casing.
I remember seeing this years ago and from what I remember, it was said that the casing just so happened to fall like this and it was a perfect time picture. I have no idea how true that actually is though
Either terrible editor, or the casing ejected, then bounced off the brass deflector and lined up perfectly with the photo. Casing being closer to the camera than the man and it being a weird instance of perspective.
1) it appears to show the casing of the bullet coming out of the barrel which aside from being physically impossible because the barrel is too small also makes no sense because
2) somehow the BULLET IS MISSING FROM THE CASING. So unless this is a new kind of new gun where the bullet explodes and teleports the case out the front of the gun then this image has hit a new low for journalism
I mean it could just be the way the rifle is gassed. There’s a diagram showing the pattern of ejection of spent cases. So it may have just been a photo that caught the empty cartridge casing that bounced off of the shell deflector and happened to be forward of the muzzle in a way that looked funny. Or it’s a bad photo shop job lol
Ooh ooh it was a failure to eject so the next round double loaded and the result is the spent casing was ejected out the front of the barrel but don’t worry the following cartridge’s pill will be right behind it
"I am not american" is a very ignorant way to state this.
It may be surprising to you or to them, but guns do exist outside the US. Actually many countries still have compulsorily military service, so the general level of firearms knowledge there is quite higher than that in the US.
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Is that the casing coming out? Not the bullet?
Yes it is. Probably the image is AI generated, though human editors also make such mistakes.
I think there's enough real gun shooting footage for AI not to make that mistake.
I've seen AI make this mistake, but with a whole cartridge instead of a spent casing.
I guess it depends on how it is trained and what limitations are placed on it. Last year there was a point where Gemini was refusing to draw any firearms at all.
https://preview.redd.it/ncg0fdh92t6g1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=59c1ed8ecb98bd4d7ef2dd593076b65ddb3dcfd4
It's a double action assault rifle, 1st action it shoots a bullet, then the casing, you are now double dead....
Also this is why I do not fear AI taking over.
i should mention that this was from 2020
Oh God, the guns can now shoot the gunpowder after?
It's got alot better but also there is still alot of issues, still not scared but its getting close
You beat me to it!
Not ai generated since ai struggles with gun
It is was edited
Tells us which subreddit the AI was trained on
I think you are underestimating how shitty AI really is.
This is the kind of mistake humans make that don't know guns. I've seen so many TV shows and movies over the years where some CSI type pulls a casing from a wall or something.
human artist and CG argist sill make this mistake.
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AI sees still image of gun firing. There is casing coming out of gun but the bullet isnt visible in most images.
It knows thing comes out of end of gun so it takes casing and puts it at end of gun.
Probably not AI, probably editor error or intentional because the bullet for a 5.56 is actually pretty small in comparison to the casing. So an M4 (gun pictured) firing a .22 caliber bullet would look unimpressive and not ‘scary’
https://preview.redd.it/xflb40zsgs6g1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=710ceb25e025d483dca90b846e010bac0afb79aa
It could even just be an ejected casing that fell into the perfect position when the picture was taken too.
Edit: It turns out my hypothesis was the correct one. This is a real pic taken of Staff Sgt. Gluyas by Airman first class Sarver in 2018.
Extremely unlikely, most casings will eject to side and back. Sure you could have one eject out forward but that would literally be a one in a million photograph
After typing my previous comment, I scrolled a bit further down in the comments section and saw this.
https://preview.redd.it/sxtzrvhc8t6g1.png?width=1020&format=png&auto=webp&s=259099e0c49d6fa4eac11d50030dc6542c27c8b3
I’ve fired a lot of firearms, and nearly all the automatic/semi-automatics eject the casings up, rearward, and to the left. I’ve never encountered a weapon that ejects casings forward.
You've never had a spent casing ricochet off of something and end up in front? Or get pushed by the wind after being ejected upwards?
I was able to find the source for the photo too.
https://preview.redd.it/lu2xckbght6g1.png?width=1020&format=png&auto=webp&s=797740e4317a06c97137e4d9a972f5a7ce53e463
to be fair, on an AR, the shell deflector can do weird things.
A properly gassed AR should eject between 2 and 3 o clock
Between 3 and 4 according to most sources. 2 to 3 would be slightly overgassed, which is what moat service rifles are to improve reliability when dirty.
I don't know if it was supposed to look scary, but now it just looks ridiculous. I am sure it wasn't intentional and whoever reviewed it before publishing just doesn't know how guns work.
Nah this image is older than AI. National interest is just a shitty site
The image predates AI and it's real. It's just a coincidence that he shell ejected forward in line with the barrel while the picture was taken.
This image is older than AI I think.
This photo predates ai iirc
Not if they reference Indian movies...
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
I'm with everyone else, I don't think AI would ever make this mistake
Human built guns have also been known to make that mistake....
Rarely.
Stewie's firearm instructor here.
There's a lot of bad information and guesswork in this comment section.
It's neither AI nor photoshop, it is a casing ejected after firing a round. It just so happens to have lined up with the barrel as the photo was taken, in the foreground to the right hand side of the firearm.
This made the rounds on a bunch of firearm subreddits months ago and was determined to be a silly coincidence.
Please don't let Stewie back to my shooting range, his maniacal laughter is scaring away my other students!
That's 65% more bullet! No wonder they're so deadly!
Hey! Former Air Force photojournalist here.
I know the person who took this photo (not me, although I wish!)
It is a real photo. The casing ejected and it was a wild coincidence that it was captured in frame visually in front of the barrel.
https://preview.redd.it/5dqys2wdat6g1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c59b563e3048d00d13fb91f457181d66c32e9a9
No, it’s a coincidentally timed shot. The brass ejected forward and it made it look like a poor photoshop job.
It’s an old picture.
I've seen the whole bullet but just the casing is a new one
The weird thing is that it’s a fired casing, not even one with a bullet, which is what I would expect from a mistake. I suspect this may be an intentional joke
Nah it’s a hollow point with a sabot and flechettes.
We fire the whole bullet. That's 65% more bullet per bullet.
Maybe it's the 5 deadliest rifles... for the shooter.
The entire cartridge (the brass casing plus the bullet) flying out of the front of the barrel. This is physically impossible. It looks like a graphic designer just Photoshopped a stock image of a full bullet floating in front of the gun, not realizing that the brass part doesn't fly downrange.
actually there's no "bullet" at the end of that casing. It is 65% of the bullet, per bullet
This is the same technology we've been using on robots for decades. Scares the hell out of them.
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We're done here
It is not the entire cartridge, it is a spent casing. Look at the most zoomed picture on the bottom right.
yep, there is no bullet actually coming out at all lol.
you know im gonna be honest. dont know how i didnt notice that. thank u
That’s why it’s a deadliest weapon. It shoots the empty casings, good use of spent brass tbh
This is a joke.
Both things are ragebait to elevate engagement
So we're firing 65% more bullet per bullet?
People just not understanding that this rifle's so deadly, it shoots the bullet, then a millisecond later says "screw it. I'm not wasting anything!" and shoots the shell.
resourceful. i like it.
Really long hollowpoint
Are there any guns which fire the bullet then somehow eject the casing down the barrel? Seems impossible but I’m not a gun expert. Usually the casing gets ejected out the side.
Kind of. Caseless weapons(most notably the G11) were prototyped back in 70s and 80s which essentially fired a round that was seated inside a block of propellant and when fired there was no case to eject( hence the term caseless). Another notable example is the gyrojet pistol/carbine which literally fired a small rocket propelled bullet and did not have case ejection. Neither project really worked out and both were abandoned.
A railgun would be another example of something done without a casing. But those are, for the vast most part, fictional at this stage. They're pretty limited to ship-mounted, iirc, at this point.
I seem to recall some weapon that shoots the casing down rather than to the side, but can't remember its designation or even if it was a fever dream.
The P90 ejects downward, the 240 does as well. The 5.7 uppers for ARs also eject casings out of the magazine well(as the magazine on the upper is a P90 mag that runs along the top of the receiver. I think the keltec RDB ejects downward as well.
All I remember about the P90 is that it the main gun on later seasons of Stargate SG-1. :D
It's actually a pretty interesting design. The rounds actually sit perpendicular in the magazine and are rotated into place. It's also got a progressive trigger so a light pull fires semi auto and pulling it all of the way back fires full auto.
I do remember more about that gun now. That bit confused the hell out of me. It seems like a whole bunch of extraneous machining that could fail and the magazines made me think it was completely made up (at the time).
Didn't it have a firing stud rather than an actual trigger?
You're right, it's impossible.
There are some rifles that eject the casing forward (Kel Tec's RFB is an example of one), but I don't know of a design that ejects out of the barrel. For the RFB, it's actually out of the side of the action, but since it's a bullpup rifle and the action is normally near your face, it is pushed into a little chute that spits it out the front away from your face.
I had a casing at a shooting range bounce off the wall and get stuck between my shirt collar and neck. I’m in favor of not ejecting them into people’s faces
I'm former military, try digging multiple casings out from under body armor. And never volunteer to be the SAW gunner if you're a lefty.
So, to start with bullets are generally slightly larger than the bore/barrel they go down. The rifling inside the barrel squeezes down on the bullet as it passes through deforming the bullet and imparting spin. The idea that a case which would be even larger than that, could somehow fit down the barrel, just doesn't work.
If you load a bullet with not enough powder, or just a primer, there will often be just enough pressure to "stick" the bullet inside the barrel. This is called a squib and is very dangerous because if a full power round comes down behind it the bullet with a proper charge will strike the squib/stuck bullet and ruin, if not explode the barrel.
All those things being the case, there is no way a single cartridge could contain enough charge/energy to force the bullet and the casing down the barrel.
Thanks! Some of this I knew, but not all of it.
Our dead? What about our dead? Is it time to bring them out?
Not enough rifles take advantage of sending the case down range too.
you know whats better than one high-speed projectile ?
Not enough rifles take advantage of sending the case down range really nice that he isn’t spraying brass on the guy to his right. I hated that.
https://preview.redd.it/5zjf3ln6zs6g1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de67b5f76747afe974a4f7f13c0f1e8a6e816725
This is an old photo where it was just coincidentally shot where the brass was ejecting forward and the camera caught it right in front of the muzzle.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ar15/comments/twk9t4/talk_about_perfect_shot_the_ejected_brass_is_dead/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Hey, Peter’s autistic cousin here. Also somehow resident firearms expert.
The joke is that it looks the rifle is firing an ejected empty casing down the barrel.
What this looks like instead that for some reason no comment has noticed, is that this picture was just curiously timed. The casing is in fact in front of the rifle, to the side, and not coming down the barrel. The brass deflector on AR platforms can sometimes give it a little bit of forward momentum. Casings tend to spin out sometimes like burning hot bayblades
What is also being clowned on is the hilariously bad grammar in the title of this article.
I know this is a genuine picture because of the stupid yellow tape on the butt stock and blue electrical tape on the magazine. That kind of marking is a deep ritualistic code. That plus the M68 and PEQ tell me this is legit. Not everything is AI. People are getting ridiculously paranoid
This is absolutely not AI. It’s been around the Air Force and discussed ad nauseam.
He is a very real person and this picture has made its way around both memes and training slideshows within our career field.
The tape on the butt stock is usually where our butt numbers are for armory issue/accountability. The blue tape on the mag is usually just an identifier for training mags.
If I remember right, you’re correct and it was just weird timing on an ejected casing.
However, I wouldn’t be surprised if a Public Affairs troop photoshopped something like this. It’s a running joke because they accidentally make fliers for events with Russian MiGs on them and stuff.
This is absolutely not AI. It’s been around the Air Force and discussed ad nauseam.
He is a very real person and this picture has made its way around both memes and training slideshows within our career field.
The tape on the butt stock is usually where our butt numbers are for armory issue/accountability. The blue tape on the mag is usually just an identifier for training mags. Usually these days sim round mags and bolt carrier groups are entirely blue to standout even more.
If I remember right, you’re correct and it was just weird timing on an ejected casing.
My dead?
I remember seeing this years ago and from what I remember, it was said that the casing just so happened to fall like this and it was a perfect time picture. I have no idea how true that actually is though
Ye gods, it truely is caseless ammo!
The casings just go right out the barrel! And not the ejection port! Somehow!
But I don’t have any dead
https://preview.redd.it/tapi0lvd2t6g1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=7bbfd196894cdfd63f191ad9bc8ba81fae8bcc3e
thats 65% more bullet per bullet!
It has the whole casing on it what is this? A turret from a portal?
Cave Johnson did it again!
Either terrible editor, or the casing ejected, then bounced off the brass deflector and lined up perfectly with the photo. Casing being closer to the camera than the man and it being a weird instance of perspective.
It seems that the national interest is better education
Shit if it’s firing the cartridge no wonder it’s the deadliest rifle. You might as well be hucking saw blades at the target
It's not even the whole round, just the casing!
😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣
My dead? My very own dead?
It's firing the casing not the actual bullet. Must be AI.
This is confounding for 2 reasons:
1) it appears to show the casing of the bullet coming out of the barrel which aside from being physically impossible because the barrel is too small also makes no sense because
2) somehow the BULLET IS MISSING FROM THE CASING. So unless this is a new kind of new gun where the bullet explodes and teleports the case out the front of the gun then this image has hit a new low for journalism
I mean it could just be the way the rifle is gassed. There’s a diagram showing the pattern of ejection of spent cases. So it may have just been a photo that caught the empty cartridge casing that bounced off of the shell deflector and happened to be forward of the muzzle in a way that looked funny. Or it’s a bad photo shop job lol
Ejecting the jacket through the muzzle is very efficient.
While possibly AI, you're brass deflector could be working overtime as well
Isn't it your death or you're death?
Probably a poorly edited image of a bullet being pasted into the image next to the rifle
If I buy the bullet I’m using all of it!
Here at Aperture Science we file the whole bullet:
That's 65% more bullet per bullet!
Haters will say it’s fake
Ooh ooh it was a failure to eject so the next round double loaded and the result is the spent casing was ejected out the front of the barrel but don’t worry the following cartridge’s pill will be right behind it
Yeah yeah that’s the ticket
You also wrote it wrong.
It's "You're".
That’s a new 2 stage round I’m secretly developing with DARPA.
AI generated article with spelling mistake in title and shell casing instead of bullet?
We fire the whole casing, so you get 65% more bullet per bullet.
https://preview.redd.it/zz8gvcsxvx6g1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30f70a979dac6d66020e9fa478eda397c9fc49b7
Where is any semblance of a muzzle flash?
Plus "we fire the whole bullet. 65% more bullet per bullet" is happening.
I thought it was the error your dead instead of you are dead
It fires the whole bullet that's 65% more bullet per bullet
This is what happens when you install the bolt backwards.
An a non american: is that the shell casing that flies out sideways?
It is a shell casing that flies out of the muzzle as if it is a bullet, which is not how firearms work. Globally, not only in America...
theyre saying they dont know much about guns sinse they arent american
not that guns where they live work differently
"I am not american" is a very ignorant way to state this.
It may be surprising to you or to them, but guns do exist outside the US. Actually many countries still have compulsorily military service, so the general level of firearms knowledge there is quite higher than that in the US.
Yes, that's the shell that is usually ejected from the side
This comes from people that have no idea how firearms work. This is also the kind of sources people quote to regulate firearms.
Moms Demand Action Now made this same mistake a decade ago
In addition to what everyone else said...blue tape on the magazine would seem to indicate training rounds.
Op got clickbaited. Next